...ate mess. I next boiled the thermometer, and got a most excellent result; the mercury went up to about 200 degrees Fahren- heit. In the opinion of the... ...aps; but a close inspection disabled the hair-trunk theory, and fur- ther discussion and examination exploded it entirely—that is, in the opinion of a... ...ed it. This one clung to his theory with affection- ate fidelity characteristic of originators of scientific theo- ries, and afterward won many of the... ...period, and roamed the wastes of chaos in the company with the cave-bear, pri- meval man, and the other Oo”litics of the Old Silurian fam- ily.” Each ... ...all the time, and we still kept an eye on her after we got back to the hotel portico. I had a theory that the gravitation of refraction, being subsidi... ...er, as to prevent the moon from rising higher than 12,200 feet above sea-level. This daring theory had been received with frantic scorn by some of my ...

... lake, the boats mirrored in the water, and far and high beyond floats the atmospheric fairy- land of the mountains of Glarus, twenty miles away.) The... ...nglishmen will weave into wonderful prose and beautiful rhythms and subtly atmospheric forms, the intricate, austere and courageous imagination of our... ...it is understood by very illiterate people that does anything of the sort—“scientists’” science, in fact. What science has to tell about “The Races of...

...e prevailing wind was sarcastic. To come here from London was to come from atmospheric blue-greys to ashen-greys, from smoke and soft smut to grime an... ...way from Christianity, to the Theosophists and the Christian 61 H G Wells Scientists—she had felt she was only “st’aying fu’tha.” And then suddenly w...