Arcana of NatureS. Sonnenschein & Company, 1909 - 471 sider |
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ages animal appear Arcana of Nature batrachians beautiful become beneath BERLIN HEIGHTS birds blood body bones brain causes cells centre cerebellum cerebrum cetiosaurus changes character chyle clairvoyance climate coal creation death deposited Devonian distinct earth embryo endosmosis existence external extinct extremely facts fauna fibres fishes fluid force forest ganglia growth heat hence higher human ichthyosaurus iguanodon immortal inference influence intelligence islands lepidodendron light living lowest mammals manifested marsupials mass matter medulla oblongata megalosaurus ments mind mollusks motion muscles nebulæ nebular theory nerves nervous neurine never observed ocean oölite organs origin peculiar perfect period Permian phenomena philosophy physical plants portion position present principles produced progress proved races remains remarkable reptiles rocks saurians sauroids silurian skull species sphere spinal cord spirit surface Swedenborg theory thought thru tion trace tribes trilobite true types vegetable vertebræ vertebrata wild zoöphyte
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Side 35 - Is lightened : — that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, — Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul : While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
Side 2 - And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven : and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it...
Side 94 - I have been surprised at the observations made by some of my characters. It seems as if an occult Power was moving the pen. The personage does or says something, and I ask, how the Dickens did he come to think of that...
Side 244 - We may infer from these facts what havoc the introduction of any new beast of prey must cause in a country, before the instincts of the indigenous inhabitants have become adapted to the stranger's craft or power.
Side 97 - I appeal to the greatest poets of the present day, whether it is not an error to assert that the finest passages of poetry are produced by labour and study.
Side 243 - From these several facts we may, I think, conclude, first, that the wildness of birds with regard to man, is a particular instinct directed against him, and not dependent on any general degree of caution arising from other sources of danger; secondly, that it is not acquired by individual birds in a short time, even when much persecuted; but that in the course of successive generations it becomes hereditary.
Side 236 - Why, on these small points of land, which within a late geological period must have been covered by the ocean, which are formed of basaltic lava, and therefore differ in geological character from the American continent, and which are placed under a peculiar climate — why were their aboriginal inhabitants, associated, I may add, in different proportions both in kind and number from those in the continent, and therefore acting on each other in a different manner — why were they created in American...
Side 157 - Major, like the Minor, consists partly of large tracts and ill-defined patches of irresolvable nebula, and of nebulosity in every stage of resolution, up to perfectly resolved stars like the Milky Way, as also of regular and irregular nebulae properly so called, of globular clusters in every stage of resolvability, and of clustering groups sufficiently insulated and condensed to come under the designation of
Side 17 - After apologizing to him for troubling him, she said that if, as all people say, he possessed the extraordinary gift of conversing with the souls of the departed, he would perhaps have the kindness to ask her husband how it was about the silver service. Swedenborg did not at all object to comply with her request. Three days afterwards the said lady had company at her house for coffee.
Side 16 - On the same day the news was spread through the city, and, as the Governor had thought it worthy of attention, the consternation was considerably increased; because many were in trouble on account of their friends and property, which might have been involved in the disaster. " On the Monday evening a messenger arrived at Gottenburg, who was despatched during the time of the fire.