In this respect, however, the otherwise so irritable Father easily satisfied himself, not only by his own observations of an opposite tendency, but chiefly by stricter investigation of one little incident that was reported to him.
Nothing, at least to an English reader, can appear more disproportionate than the influence they impute to the stage, and the quantity of anxious investigation they devote to its concerns.
Whatever may be the verdict as to the author's case for spontaneous generation, all will agree that the book is a most brilliant and stimulating study, founded on the personal investigation of a born experimenter.
The study of these chemical metamorphoses and the transformations of energy in osmotic growths has opened up a new subject for experimental investigation in the field of organic chemistry.
This investigation has shown, however, that there are serious gaps in the list.
This play was still being given when the investigation ceased.
Those phlegmatic experts made a thorough investigation of the resources of the establishment, and departed mysteriously, after the fashion of the common plumber of civilisation, into space.
But subsequent investigation elicited the fact that Jimmy in his backward fall had bitten his tongue to the effusion of blood.
I then ordered Gibbs in arrest till an investigation should be made, and ran at speed to a gap in the hedge which opened into the regimental camp.
The final development of the investigation of the Society of the Golden Circle took place after I had again obtained a field command, and I was glad to have no occasion to form a personal judgment about it.
They announce as the result of the great scientific investigation prompted by this fact, a "great discovery concerning cancer.
Shall we not be compelled to resort to the same methods of investigation in the brain, which have been so successful in establishing the physiology of the nerves, viz.
He who has this loyalty dominant in his nature never pronounces anything false which subsequent investigation, or the investigation by others, proves true.
The great results of the scientificinvestigation of nature we are agreed upon knowing, but how much of our study are we bound to give to the processes by which those results are reached?
He says he believes we are the instruments of effecting a righteous retribution; and, if he spends his last farthing, he will have the investigation brought to its full end in a court of justice.
I wanted to go with Robert to the Mews, but he said it was best that he should carry out the rest of the investigation alone, for my strength and resolution had been too hardly taxed already.
Remember that this investigation and the cause that leads to it must be kept a profound secret.
Japan: Bulletin of the Earthquake Investigation Committee of Japan, Tokyo.
The fertility of conception and the thoroughness of execution of this epoch-making investigation recommend its conclusion to the scientific reader.
I found myself in an expectant frame of mind, neither calm nor excited, but rather in that condition of philosophical quiet which best prepared me for an investigation of the phenomenon which I confidently expected to witness.
The writer who more than any other has in recent years restored the study of the sense of smell from a by-path to its proper position as a highway for investigation is without doubt Professor Zwaardemaker, of Utrecht.
Careful investigation of olfactory acuteness would reveal the existence of such menstrual heightening of its acuity.
The characteristics of olfaction which our investigation has so far revealed have not, on the whole, been favorable to the influence of personal odors as a sexual attraction in civilized men.
Ribot has made an interesting investigation as to the prevalence and nature of the emotional memory of odors (Psychology of the Emotions, Chapter XI).
In many cases they will do little more than suggest further investigation necessary.
This fact may be easily verified by comparative weights and dimensions and investigation of the Premo Film Pack system used in this camera.
But I believe that if a formal investigation was started, the Solar Guard would be within its legal rights to delay signing the contracts until such investigation was completed.
Still another valuable fruit of a wide investigation is a higher degree of confidence on the part of both author and reader that no later discoveries will upset present conclusions.
Archer, a leading Whig Senator, concurred in this view, adding that perhaps the Mexican proceedings had been justifiable, and that first of all a careful investigation of the facts was requisite.
It is true that many of the claims were exaggerated, and some of them a great deal; but this does not matter, for what the United States asked was an investigation of the demands, not the payment of any one at its face.
Investigation did not lead to the conclusion that life in a monastery was quite the same in practice as in theory, and a penchant for asceticism could be indulged without entering the cloister.
I can imagine no science of greater importance, no investigation more worthy of devotion.
The painstaking investigation recorded in the Proceedings and Journal of the Society for Psychical Research has to a great extent been carried on by inquirers unencumbered by any bias towards "spookery.
It is not extraordinary, therefore, that persons should readily be found eager to enter upon the investigation of new and distant countries, and of the various objects of knowledge which they contain.
The interest of the subject will always claim for it the patient investigation of reflecting men, and will in time, doubtless, remove many of the difficulties in which it is at present involved.
I refer to these honored names for the benefit of that large class who must take their science upon faith in some scientific prophet or apostle, in default of any possibility of personal investigation of the facts.
Now, there are two modes of investigationopen to us, the dogmatic and the inductive.
We remove the field of our investigation from a remote province of Asia, to one equally remote from Judea, and far more unfavorable for the growth of the religion of a crucified Jew, to the proud capital of the world, imperial Rome.
In another chapter will be found some of the experiments which I have performed with the phonograph in the investigation of sounds of various kinds.
Having discovered the sign of negation among the Simians, I began an investigation to ascertain how far it could be found among the races of mankind.
As is the case with numbers of neuroses and psychoses, we must for the present rest satisfied to observe symptoms; the mystery of their morbid anatomy will remain unsolved until our methods of investigation attain perfection.
His intelligence may be high, his imagination fertile, his mind apt, alert, and original, and it may require painstaking investigation to reveal shortcomings none the less real.
And if their detection demands painstaking study and repeated interrogation, fruitless results may very well mean that the investigation was not sufficiently thorough.
Finally, the knowledge derived from the pathological investigation of myoclonus and polyclonus does not of necessity throw light on the morbid anatomy of tic.
But the mere fact that no structural alteration was discovered post-mortem cannot invalidate the diagnosis; the imperfection of our methods of investigation suffices to explain the negative results of such researches.
Of course any and every facial tic may occur by itself, but carefulinvestigation will often reveal concomitant reactions of other muscular groups.
The investigation of the motor phenomena of tic is no less encircled with perplexities.
Driven to investigation by this suspicion, he passed again over the trampled ground, marking this time every separate indentation, every faintest imprint of hoof or foot.
We have spent some time in the investigation of this subject, and now give the public, in a condensed form, our opinion of this matter.
In almost every department of science the spirit of inquiry is abroad, investigation is active; yet, in this department, every thing is left to chance and ignorance.
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