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...Federal Government should go out of existence, the common run of people would not detect the difference in the affairs of their daily life for a considerable length of time. But if the authority of the States were struck down, disorder approaching chaos would be upon us within 24 hours. No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government...
Essentially, this stuff is colloidal silica possessing immense absorbent qualities. It looks like coarse sand, but has pores so fine no microscope can detect them. In refining petroleum, it removes the sulphur-bearing constituents and gum-forming compounds. But, most remarkable, silica gel makes ice with the help of heat...
...many thousand admirers were quite ready to concede that he must "use his vast store of knowledge on innumerable topics with amazing facility," and that he was, as advertised, "WISE, WHIMSICAL, EDUCATIONAL, HELPFUL," there were some who wondered whether his all-embracing wisdom did not permit him to detect the offense proffered to his personal dignity and to his cloth by the ill taste of that circus-barker advertisement...
...determine the matter would be to weigh small objects, observing whether variations in their weight occur exactly as, or shortly after, the sun or moon passes over them. The weight variations are infinitesimal. To detect them would require fabulously sensitive scales. But could ic be done, Science would have a check on Einstein far more clean-cut and conclusive than ether-drift experiments and eclipse observations...
...STUDY OF WAR?Admiral Sir Reginald Custance ? Houghton, Mifflin ($3.50). We detect in this book a "sea dog" barking at civilian interference in the conduct of naval affairs. (The book is more a study of naval than military warfare.) It is almost a direct protest against the confusion which the civilian injects into the military aims of warfare...