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...several patients with influenza, has been independently cultivated, and has produced influenza-like symptoms when injected into rabbits. Numerous other varieties of bacteria, such as Pfeiffer's bacillus, are usually present in these puzzling respiratory diseases, and it is not clear that the new organism is the invariable causal agent of influenza, though it is believed that it produces conditions in the lung tissues which facilitate the onset of pneumonia and other complications. No specific vaccine, or serum has yet been devised to combat the bacterium, nor has the work been confirmed by other observers. We are still...
...extraordinary interest, especially among English thinkers, in what was called Natural Religion, by which was meant religion founded, not upon revelation, but upon the world of nature and of man and apprehended, not by faith, but by reason. The arguments based upon the physical world fall into two groups: Causal and Design. The Causal argument concludes in a dilemma, either branch of which is inconceivable. Of the so-called Design argument, that, from adaptations, has been seriously weakened by the theory of evolution and at present only the argument from an ordered system of laws is of importance. The argument...
...cultus of the dead comprises the observances and offerings paid to the dead as sentient beings. So widespread has been this cultus from the earliest ages that Spencer tries to derive all religion from it. Savage minds connect events in causal sequence very readily and they invoke the dead according as they see good or evil following their acts. The sentiments which lead to this invocation of the dead vary among different people. Sometimes the terror of the dead predominates, and we find various charms and obstacles employed to prevent the return of the dead to the places which they...
...University Club, in connection with which accommodations strictly for Harvard visitors might be given, also seemed impracticable owing to the existence of the Colonial Club. That is, two plans were separately discussed, and it was only in relation to the second that the Colonial Club was mentioned. Any causal relation between the Colonial Club and the probable failure of a hotel was not hinted...
...have heard it stated that one of the Ward brothers happened to reside near Ithaca last spring, and that the Cornell crew pulled the Ward stroke at Saratoga. If the Era would resolve this seeming causal connection into one of mere antecedent and consequent, our mind would be at rest...