Author: Thomas BEGGSPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Intemperance, and the remedies which lie within the scope of voluntary effort, etc
Author: Thomas BEGGSBritish Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages :
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Catalogue ... 1807-1871
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Modern English Biography
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Democracy and Education
Author: John DeweyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.
Modern English Biography: (Supplement v.1-3)
Author: Frederic BoasePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 452
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