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...rom a patinated gramophone. The yearning tarred his cheeks with bloodied brush, a capillary network that poured into his sockets. Now, facing him d... ...e things you haven't known even existed. They call it "explanatory power" in philosophy of science. Her words had such an effect on me. Hitherto, i... ...called me "My Little Eichmann" but that was only in jest. These Yekkes with their order and efficiency and table manners and how she studied German ... ...many countries. Many appearances in the electronic media on subjects in philosophy and the sciences, and concerning economic matters. Write to Me...

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...dered how to make the Were traitors pay for their part in this mockery of science. Zina hated humans and their callous disregard for lives unlike t... ...inishing the serum. The profits would be huge. He could almost feel a Tri-Science Prize in his hands as he got what he deserved. ~***~ Laylah fidget... ...de room that contained a simple shower stall, toilet and sink. With quick efficiency, Kattcha put a large trash bag over the cast, tying it tight wi... ... headquarter buildings for Zina and her people.” “Very nice intelligence network you have, Henry.” Yon nodded appreciatively. “It is, isn’t it? Now ... ... in the Pacific. Some of the most brilliant minds in the various fields of science and technology worked together to make the venture a success. It w...

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...njoyed it. His vigorous strokes left a shine on Cisco’s coat. Back east, his network of runners was stabled at three different tracks and staff loo... ...ie dismounted while Martin held Ace, and they switched her saddle with smooth efficiency. “What do you want done with Ace?” she asked as Kurt boost...

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... ―Well-trained Indians have worked as service specialists in a global IT network for decades and are rated at least as effective as the American an... ...d Indus are tugging us backward at the same time that Indian business and science are leaping into the future. 60% of all Indians are below the age ... ... but we must be able to see as much of the whole as possible. We need the sciences to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and sm... ...to inform us and enlarge our understanding of things great and small, but science is not the only achievement of the human mind. As Nietzsche pointe... ... they alone are responsible for voting in the scoundrels. But look at the efficiency of your autocratic church, Ray. The Pope decides something today...

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...f resemblance and the matter of difference—upon all those issues the young science student is as apt to dismiss as Rot, and the young classical studen... ...ot, and the young classical student as Gas, and the austere student of the science of Economics as Theorising, unsuit- able for his methods of researc... ...Natural History Museum, through the geological draw- ers of the College of Science, through a year of dissection and some weeks at the astronomical te... ...lar relation to the world of fact. For the rough purposes of every day the network picture will do, but the finer your purpose the less it will serve,... ... worker, to risk one’s personal freedom and culture and the upbringing and efficiency of one’s children. It is to lower the standard of one’s personal... ... in fact to keep all the Samurai in a state of moral and bodily health and efficiency. It does as much of this as well as it can, but of course, like ... ...he kinetic type of be- liever finds both his individual and his associated efficiency enhanced by a systematic discipline, if he is convinced that he ...

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...oned. But for some of us moderns, who have been touched with the spirit of science, prophesying is almost a habit of mind. Science is very largely ana... ...n States of the world as they are at present; the resistance of a gigantic network of Government organisations, interests, privileges, assumptions. Ag... ...t must end in a dead- lock because of the continually increasing defensive efficiency of entrenched infantry. This would give the defensive an advanta... ...h papers after the battle of the Marne. It shows just where our mili- tary science had reached in 1914, namely, to a level a year before Bloch wrote. ... ...he hilt. The world was entrenched at his feet. By May the lagging military science of the British had so far overtaken events as to realise that shrap... ...r zone. Their Zeppelin raids upon England have shown a steadily increasing efficiency, and it is highly probable that they will be repeated on a much ... ...from congestion of the rail- ways. She suffers both in social and military efficiency, and she is so suffering because her railways, instead of being ...

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...rrow and use…. Then suddenly man woke up to it, the railways spread like a network over the globe, the ever enlarging iron steamships began their stag... ... human mind to the existence of this universal presence. And even then the science of electricity remained a mere little group of curious facts for ne... ..., and but little valued, and few people even then could have realised that Science was still but the flimsiest of trial sketches and discovery scarcel... ...ches and discovery scarcely beginning. No one seems to have been afraid of science and its possibilities. Yet now where there had been but a score or ... ...ergy dominating every other source of power, but for some years yet a vast network of difficulties in detail and application kept the new discovery fr... ...umerable occupa- tions, were being flung out of employment by the superior efficiency of the new machinery, the rapid fall in the cost of transit was ... ...gainst the use of an atomic riveter that would have doubled the individual efficiency and halved the num- ber of steel workers. ‘Shouldn’t wonder if t...

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...ifficulties that this vulgar imperialism of Germany, seizing upon mod- ern science and modern appliances, has created for France and the spirit of man... ... end in Germany. The French generals have no such delu- sions about German science or foresight or capacity as domi- nates the smart dinner chatter of... ...le piece of woodland in the eye of God and the aeroplane. I went about the network of rail- ways and paths under the trees that a modern battery re- q... ...the energy and ability of the constructive and repairing branch upon whose efficiency their feats depend. Perhaps the most inter- esting thing I saw i... ...ion of movement on the part of the half-naked sweating men, the calculated efficiency of each worker, the apparent heedlessness, the real certitude, w... ...e world from the dominance of the reactionary German Imperialism of modern science. The pictures are arranged to shape out the life of a shell, from t... ...n making at X to spur-worshipping in khaki, is a dead loss to the military efficiency of the country. Every man that is needed or is likely to be need...

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...ould feel exactly like this. What saves us is effi- ciency—the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no col... ...nd I thought him a harmless fool. ‘I always ask leave, in the interests of science, to measure the crania of those going out there,’ he said. ‘And whe... ...r-of-fact tone. I felt very annoyed. ‘Is that question in the interests of science too?’ ‘It would be,’ he said, without taking notice of my irritatio... ...d be,’ he said, without taking notice of my irritation, ‘inter- esting for science to watch the mental changes of indi- viduals, on the spot, but …’ ‘... ... use telling you much about that. Paths, paths, ev- erywhere; a stamped-in network of paths spreading over the empty land, through long grass, through...

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... nameless sequences of maladjustments that still defy our ordinary medical science. It was afflicting him with a general malaise, it was affecting his... ...ity in every- thing he experienced. And with that went this levity of con- science, a heaviness of soul and a levity of conscience, that could make hi... ...nding preoccupation. He would have liked to discuss with some one else the network of perplexities in which he was entangling himself, and more partic... ...rt and so forth, who had acquired a consider- able amount of ungentlemanly science and energy in Ger- many and German Switzerland. But the Fellows ele... ...y be avoided,” the bishop asserted. “Without a loss, that is, of practical efficiency,” he added. “For I have much to do.” “I think that it is possibl... ...r, Mr. Barker, the bone-setter, she was convinced she could be restored to efficiency. But she had no ready money. The bishop agreed without hesitatio...

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... had acquired had left him with the impression that arithmetic was a fluky science and best avoided in practical affairs, but even the absence of book... ...d Mr. Polly had lost much of his natural confidence, so far as figures and sciences and languages and the possibilities of learning things were con- c... ...-side in which they had wandered, and see Port Burdock spread out below, a network of interlacing street lamps and shifting 17 H G Wells tram lights ... ...ulates fat and morbid products in his blood, it declines in its collective efficiency and vigour and secretes discomfort and misery. Every phase of it...

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... of people who had been expecting friends from places on the South-Western network were standing about the station. One grey-headed old gentleman came... ...of Rich- mond Park and the glare of Kingston Hill threw their light upon a network of black smoke, blotting out the whole val- ley of the Thames and e... ...ay even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefactio... ...nd pain on earth, have either never appeared upon Mars or Martian sanitary science eliminated them ages ago. A hun- dred diseases, all the fevers and ... ...pute their footing. The trees near me were dead and brown, but fur- ther a network of red thread scaled the still living stems. The neighbouring house... ...ep, and get all the books we can; not novels and poetry swipes, but ideas, science books. That’s where men like you come in. We must go to the British... ...sh Museum and pick all those books through. Especially we must keep up our science—learn more. We must watch these Martians. Some of us must go as spi...

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... bring such windy punishment upon itself, as I never fail to find recorded in the newspapers when the wind has blown at all hard. Brixton seems to hav... ...honey, butter and fruit, and suckled their children as they sat by their clean baskets, and had such enormous goitres (or glandular swellings in the t... ...and old enough to hear the story again just yet. But, she never spared me one word of it, and indeed commanded the awful chalice to my lips as the onl... ...aris time being more in their way; the other, a young priest, with a very small bird in a very small cage, who feeds the small bird with a quill, and ... ...e. As quickly as I can follow it with my eye and thought, the same oar is carried to a turning lathe. A whirl and a Nick! Handle made. Oar finished. T...

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... head to sea, she faces the waves again with an unsubdued courage. XIX THE EFFICIENCY of a steamship consists not so much in her courage as in the pow... ...on the ships of the sea. He has more manners of villainy, and no more con- science than an Italian prince of the seventeenth cen- tury. His weapon is ... .... This old chap was doing his little share of the world’s work with proper efficiency. His little blue eyes had made out the danger many hundred yards... ...s. One re- ceived a wonderful impression of utter abandon- ment, of wasted efficiency. From the first the Tilbury Docks were very efficient and ready ... ...sages; and of all that line of ships, whose rigging made a thick, enormous network against the sky, whose brasses flashed almost as far as the eye of ... ... to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. The ocean has the con- scienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation. He canno... ...n would have been re- strained without infringing the sacred privileges of science. For the lack of a little cool thinking in our guides and masters t...

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...etext for coming back to see. Granice suddenly felt himself enveloped in a network of espionage. As the door closed he threw himself into an armchair ... ...cord; and in seeking to avoid the pitfalls of sentiment he had developed a science of evasion in which the woman of the moment became a mere implement... ... the consciousness that his writing must have betrayed his distrust of her efficiency, seemed an added rea- son for turning down her street instead of...

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...m that should he let it dwindle to four-fifty or even four-eighty, all the efficiency would be gone out of the money, as though there were some magic ... ...as if unrolled endlessly in the round opening of the port, sent a wavering network of light and shade into the place. Sterne, holding the door open wi... ...gentleman, Mr. Van Wyk. You may have asked me what I had done with my con- science.” 114 End of the Tether He seemed to muse, profoundly silent, very...

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...fanatic about music. All the energies that might have gone into languages, science, or literature, that might have made her friends, or shown her the ... ... had been brawling three weeks ago at Westminster over a question of naval efficiency. After a disturbed paragraph or two, the col- umn of print once ... ... drawing no reply from Hewet, he pro- ceeded to think about himself, about science, about Cam- bridge, about the Bar, about Helen and what she thought... ...d blue eyes now shallow and watery, the bloom of the cheeks congealed to a network of dry red canals. 253 Virginia Woolf Helen turned to her. “Did yo...

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...on, and is looked upon as the consummation of human invention and physical science. A great pole, nearly 80 feet high, is erected with a wooden bird, ... ...gents, and the Bible tells us what are the rules and condi- tions of their efficiency. ‘“Oh! but, poor man, he has a sickly wife!” Yes, but, “it remai... ...l with a study which I am a little more conversant with than with history, science, &c. ‘Besides, I do see that we have, many of us, very vague notion... ...with our teaching. If I could get him to take an inter- est in the general science of language and to go into philo- logical points, of course his wor... ... each animal. It gives trouble when one wants to break it up, it is such a network of roots; but once out of the ground and the soil clear, and it wil... ...ears. ‘You are all alive now, trying to work up your parochial schools to “efficiency” mark—rather you were doing so, for I think there was only time ... ...outh European. Many of the women are tattooed from head to foot, a regular network of a bluish inlaid pattern. It is not so common with the men, rathe...

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... mind to the utmost. 36 Night and Day Perhaps the unwomanly nature of the science made her instinctively wish to conceal her love of it. But the more... ...w, and Mary felt, at last, that she was the center ganglion of a very fine network of nerves which fell over England, and one of these days, when she ... ... one who confessed to that weakness. In the office his rather ostentatious efficiency annoyed those who took their own work more lightly, and, if they... ... weekly visit to old Miss Trotter at Ealing, who was an authority upon the science of Heraldry, never failed to excite her laughter. She wanted to kno... ...referably to some bleak northern moor, and there study mathematics and the science of astronomy. Twenty words would explain 208 Night and Day the who...

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............................ 105 Chapter Nine: Natural Development and Social Efficiency as Aims.........................................116 Chapter Ten:... ... ................................................. 214 Chapter Seventeen: Science in the Course of Study................................................ ...hysical existence. The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the power... ...uld be no seeing the trees because of the forest. Business, politics, art, science, religion, would make all at once a clamor for attention; confusion... ... are usu- ally relied upon too exclusively. Schools require for their full efficiency more opportunity for conjoint activities in which those instruct... ...scien- tific management of work. It is a narrow view which re- stricts the science which secures efficiency of operation to movements of the muscles. ... ...ty, resourcefulness. An ideally perfect knowl- edge would represent such a network of interconnections that any past experience would offer a point of...

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........................................................... 138 THE SO-CALLED SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGY ......................................................... ...here people discuss all sorts of things fearlessly, and have a respect for science, this has been achieved. And now our insularity is breached by the ... ... our own case, do not come. He makes a better class of man than we do. His science is better than ours. His training is better than ours. His imaginat... ... war of which there is any manifest probabil- ity. Western Europe is now a network of railways, tramways, high roads, wires of all sorts; its chief be... ...and political movements. One hears nowadays a vast amount of chatter about efficiency—that magic word—and social organisation, and there is no doubt a... ...hance upon our entire social situa- tion. Beneath a surface of magnificent efficiency was—slap- dash. The third-class passengers had placed themselves... ... is true that in respect of any occupation a man has his period of maximum efficiency, then we open up a whole world of new social possibilities. What... ... . Wells usury and tribute. History finds already in its beginnings a thin network of trading and slaving flung over the world of the Normal Social Li... ...k of trading and slaving flung over the world of the Normal Social Life, a network whose strands are the early roads, whose knots are the first towns ...

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...ng cultural preference for technical fields over the humanities and social sciences. Many of these young men, even if able to study abroad, lacked the... ...most worldwide organization.This organization included a financial support network that came to be known as the “Golden Chain, ” put together mainly b... ...Os). Bin Ladin and the “Afghan Arabs” drew largely on funds raised by this network, whose agents roamed world markets to buy arms and supplies for the... ...rises. In time, the former would encompass numerous companies and a global network of bank accounts and nongovernmental institutions. Fulfilling his b... ...entrated its efforts on a “passenger bill of rights,” to improve capacity, efficiency, and customer satisfaction in the aviation system. There was no ... ...even more obvious early in 1999, when he addressed the National Academy of Sciences and presented his most somber account yet of what could happen if ... ... which performs human source collection, all-source analysis, and advanced science and technology National intelligence agencies: • National Security ... ...hroughout that time, the FAA focused on setting and maintaining safety and efficiency standards. Since no plane had been hijacked inside the United St...

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...y; “tell me how the Germans have taught you to fight Bonaparte by this new science you call ‘strategy.’” Prince Andrew smiled. “Give me time to collec... ...offensive, the plan of which, carefully prepared in accord with the modern science of strategics, had been handed to Kutuzov when he was in Vienna by ... .... “The highest wisdom is not founded on reason alone, not on those worldly sciences of physics, history, chem- istry, and the like, into which intelle... ...fway lay some snow-covered piles of fire- wood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the... ...map and speaking rapidly began proving that no eventuality could alter the efficiency of the Drissa camp, that everything had been foreseen, and that ...

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...,” “A Descent Into a Maelstrom” and “The Balloon Hoax”; such tales of con- science as “William Wilson,” “The Black Cat” and “The Tell- tale Heart,” wh... ...ments, and I immediately betook myself to bed, with full confidence in the efficiency of my invention. Nor in this matter was I disappointed. Punctual... ... many very important 67 V olume One branches of physical and metaphysical science — I must so- licit, through the influence of your honorable body, a... ...hought the illustrious V on Underduk, as he took the arm of his brother in science, and without saying a word, began to make the best of his way home ... ...ght wood, about nine feet long, and rigged on to the balloon itself with a network in the customary manner. From this frame- work was suspended a wick... ...remained stationary as to eleva- tion. We were all now anxious to test the efficiency of the rud- der and screw, and we put them both into requisition... ...nd the consequent disruption of the minute particles of ice with which the network had become encrusted during the night. Threw down several bottles t...

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...augh; and she gathered herself up to answer, “Naming and collecting is not science.” “And masonry is not architecture, but you can’t have ar- chitectu... ...eject me yourself, you will at least rear her with an especial view to her efficiency in that capacity.” And as Rose at that critical moment looked in... ...s. Curtis was less easy in her mind, her housewifely soul ques- tioned the efficiency of her niece’s establishment, and she was moreover persuaded tha... ... on the platform, but sat in the carriage reading the report of the Social Science Congress, until the travellers began to emerge, and Captain Keith (... ... discreet youth; but to be connected with such a union of learning, social science, and homeaopathy, soared beyond my utmost ambition. I suppose the w... ...d never seen Rachael in such high spirits as when they set out through the network of lanes, describing her own exceeding delight in the door thus ope...

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...eing twitted with her ignorance of political economy, that never-explained science which was thrust as an extinguisher over all her lights. “But you a... ...t Theresa did, under the command of an authority that constrained her con- science. But something she yearned for by which her life might be filled wi... ...er se- vere facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. But Rosamond Vincy seemed to have the true melodic charm; and when... ...?” said Ben, who had taken Fred’s whip out of his hand, and was trying its efficiency on the eat. “No, go out now. But put that whip down. How very me... ...at cleverness was—what was the shape into which it had run as into a close network aloof and independent. No one quicker than Rosamond to see causes a...