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The circumstance that these theories are still largely hypothetical in their own field appears to have stirred up rather than moderated the zeal for carrying them over into other departments and for applying them to the world as a whole.
Stimulated by this success, Leverrier calculated an orbit for an interior planet from perturbations of Mercury, but though prematurely christened Vulcan, this hypothetical nursling of the sun still haunts the realm of the undiscovered, along with certain equally hypothetical trans-Neptunian planets whose existence has been suggested by "residual perturbations" of Uranus, and by the movements of comets.
When I was your age I was working on my second set o' baby clothes." "Don't scold, Hitty," Nancy coaxed. "I could make perfectly good baby clothes if I needed to. Don't you think I'll be of more use in the world serving nourishing food to hordes of hungry men and women than making baby clothes for one hypothetical baby?"
If the son of Thackeray, let us say, were brought up in ignorance of his father's fame and genius, it is not improbable that he would be proud of the fact that his father was over six feet high. It seems to me that we, as a nation, are precisely in the position of this hypothetical child of Thackeray's. We fall back upon gross and frivolous things for our patriotism, for a simple reason.
Once savage man lived in perpetual fear of innumerable malignant spirits; civilized man lives in fear of invisible and imaginary accidents. For every real foe that has to be faced we fight out hypothetical battles with a dozen shadows. Worry is a matter of outlook and habit.
"You mean " in spite of himself, the fellow's tones wavered "because he's under the water?" "No; I had in mind that even if he hadn't been drowned, your " "Wot! Hadn't " "A purely hypothetical case! If the sea gave up its dead" Joe stirred uneasily "any retraction on your part wouldn't serve him.
As there is a good deal in these books about "lying spirits", we will conclude by putting a hypothetical case. Supposing that the more marvellous the Medium became, the more suspicious of him the lady of the house became.
But although Bathybias proved delusive, this did not materially affect the advance and development of the doctrine of protoplasm. Simple forms of protoplasm were found, although none quite so simple as the hypothetical Bathybias.
We shall endeavour to show that this hypothetical history of creation is not only faulty in every point, when viewed from the author's own ground, but, when examined in the proper direction, is absolutely unintelligible, or is in fact no history at all. Let us look first at the nebular hypothesis.
See also, in this respect, Professor White head's criticism of the hypothetical picture of the electron and its behaviour. Goetheanism Whence and Whither? The Adventure of Reason
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