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THREE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
Algernon Charles Swinburne
THE TEACHING OF JESUS
Leo Tolstoy
PERSONAL RELIGION IN EGYPT BEFORE
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W.M. Flinders Petrie
THE ETHER OF SPACE
Sir Oliver Lodge
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Prof. William Wrede (University of Breslau)
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Prof. C.H. Becker (Colonial Institute,
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DIAMONDS Sir William Crookes
RELIGION AND ART IN ANCIENT GREECE
Prof. Ernest A. Gardner (University of
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THE LIFE OF THE UNIVERSE 2 vols.
Prof. Svante Arrhenius (Nobel Institute,
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JESUS OR PAUL?
Prof. Arnold Meyer (University of Zurich)
POETIC “ADEQUACY” IN THE TWENTIETH
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Theodore Watts-Dunton
REVELATION AND INSPIRATION
Prof. Reinhold Seeberg (University of
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Footnotes:
1 See Lodge and Howard, Philosophical Magazine for July, 1889. See also Phil. Mag., August, 1888, page 229.
2 Cf. sections 157A, 143, 187, and chap. xvi., of my Modern Views of Electricity.
3 Radian is the name given by Prof. James Thomson to a unit angle of circular measure, an angle whose arc equals its radius, or about 57°.
4 The word “stationary” is ambiguous. I propose to use “stagnant,” as meaning stationary with respect to the earth, i.e. as opposed to stationary in space.
5 Lord Rayleigh, Nature, March 25, 1892.
6 It does not seem to have been noticed that in Query 22, quoted in the Introduction to the present book, Newton seems to throw out a curious hint in this same direction,—though he immediately abandons it again. He does not appear to have carefully edited his queries; probably they were published posthumously.
7 On doing the arithmetic, however, I find the necessary concentration absurdly great, showing that such a mass is quite insufficient. (See Appendix 1.)
8 See Lodge, Philosophical Magazine, April, 1907. Also Appendix 2 below.
9 Address to Section A of British Association at Montreal, 1884.
10 Philosophical Magazine, Dec., 1887.
11 Archives Néerlandaises (1869), Vol. IV, p. 443, or Nature, Vol XXVI, p. 500. Also Chapter IV above.