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Chesteton has a theory that no man of Jewish descent can ever become a true Englishman. For once he agrees with that object of his detestation, the dehumanized scientist, who believes in the inevitable, in determinism, and in the theory that blood is thicker than ideals. Mr. Chesterton does not altogether advocate that the Jews be treated as Isaac of York, but he does not like to see them rise as high as Disraeli and Lord Reading...
...other hand we have the "blood is thicker than water", type; persons who simply must have their tiffin, and into whose speech creeps a home-made Oxford accent whenever they talk to "those of the middle and lower classes." These are amusing and do little harm. What they fail to see is that we are no more English than we are anything else; in short, that we are Americans...
...does not want money. You may meet that man on your farm, in your village, or in your Legislature. But be sure that, whenever or where ever you meet him, as soon as it comes to a direct issue between you, his little finger will be thicker than your loins. You will go in fear of him; he will not go in fear of you. You will do what he wants; he will not do what you want. You will find that you have no weapon in your armory with which you can attack him; no argument with which...
Over four hundred meteors were observed Thursday night at the Harvard Observatory, but only three hundred and fifty of these were Leonids, the rest consisting of the ordinary shooting stars. Comparatively few Leonids were observed until 2 o'clock, but after that the showers became thicker, and between 4.30 and 5 the majority of the number appeared. The color of the meteors was principally a light green, but in some cases they were blue and red. The trial of one unusually large one was visible for fifteen minutes. About three dozen photographs were taken and at least one Leonid...
...They represent the tracts of country which have been formed the longest, parts of them having always remained above water. The sediment washed by the sea from these protruding tracts has formed lime-stone and sand stone about their edges and the strata of these rocks is therefore much thicker here than in regions like the Mississippi basin which have been often submerged. One of the great theories of mountain formation takes these sedimentary rocks and their overloading of the earth's crust for the cause of the uplifting. The study of such movements and their influence on neighboring formations...