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His idea was sufficiently clear in its resistance to any diffusion of authority, but it was correspondingly void of any suggestion of substitute.
The Nestorians, their Persecutions, and the Diffusion of their Sectarian Ideas. They inherit the old Greek Medicine. Sub-digression on Greek Medicine. The Asclepions. Philosophical Importance of Hippocrates, who separates Medicine from Religion. The School of Cnidos. Its Suppression by Constantine. Sub-digression on Egyptian Medicine. It is founded on Anatomy and Physiology.
She was so good as to develop this idea, and her picture of the part Miss Chancellor might play by making liberal donations to a fund for the diffusion among the women of America of a more adequate conception of their public and private rights a fund her adviser had herself lately inaugurated this bold, rapid sketch had the vividness which characterised the speaker's most successful public efforts.
But if this be indeed the due correlation of civic survey and civic service, how may we now best promote the diffusion and the advancement of both?
And already we were taking up the more difficult and ambitious phase of our self-appointed task, and considering the problem of using these channels we were mastering and deepening and supplementing for the stimulation and wide diffusion of contemporary thought. There we went outside the province of Alphabet and Mollentrave and into an infinitely subtler system of interests.
Osmosis, or diffusion through a septum, is a phenomenon which has been known for some time. The discovery of it is attributed to the Abbé Nollet, who is supposed to have observed it in 1748, during some "researches on liquids in ebullition." A classic experiment by Dutrochet, effected about 1830, makes this phenomenon clear.
"He had educational as well as religious aims from the first, and it is to the monks of this rapidly extending order, or to the influence which their 'rule' exercised on other conventual orders, such as the Columban, that we owe the diffusion of schools in the early part of the Middle Ages and the preservation of ancient learning.
Believing that supernaturalism reduced to 'system' cannot be other than 'wickedly political, the Atheist, truly so called, sees no hope for 'slave classes, apart from a general diffusion of anti-religious ideas. According to his theory, religion is in part a cunningly and in part a stupidly devised fable.
For that comets are rather transitory agglomerations, than permanent products of cosmical manufacture, appeared to be demonstrated by the division and disappearance of one amongst their number, as well as by the singular and rapid changes in appearance undergone by many, and the seemingly irrevocable diffusion of their substance visible in nearly all.
I am thankful that I have lived to it; I could almost say, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation. I have lived to see a diffusion of knowledge which has undermined superstition and error. I have lived to see the rights of men better understood than ever, and nations panting for liberty which seemed to have lost the idea of it.
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