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...e da un universe all’altro ISBN 978-88-95806-04-4 Translated from Italian by Martha S. Bache-Wiig 2009. Chapter XV translated by Alice Pin... ...eir titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles have been translated into English and placed in bra... ...ields, near Marseilles, in autumn of 1988. It has already been published in Italian in the magazine Persona, n. 16, in December 1989, in an issue tha... ...ropology and Sophia-Art. It was later presented in video form in French and Italian at the II International Congress of the Sophia University of Rome... ...unification of the East with the West began in a vast, global way. Another Italian, Marco Polo, had already begun this unification some years before... ...beauty is and a need for it. Nuclear physicists, for example, as well as mathematicians and cosmologists, never accept a new theory unless they ar...

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..., and put it in writing in the form of words and signs of this world. Just as mathematicians use formulas to communicate ideas, when Kab- balists wri... ...reek words in the Zohar, which remained as Kab- balistic terms and names, like Italian words in music. It makes no difference in what language we stud...

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...s and courts in the royal hierarchy. Seife suggests that these scribe-mathematicians probably gained control of the temple warehouses by being a... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. Th... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from ea... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ... risen by now?‖ —Johann Carl Friedrich Gaus (1777–1855), ―the prince of mathematicians‖ The Missing Keys to the Science Chest If the alphabet ... ...spelled some of them but not all of them. They also had no zero, but some mathematicians in the Middle Ages used the word ―nulla‖ (Latin for none) i... ...usand years, the advance of Western science stalled because ancient Greek mathematicians thought zero was a dangerous idea. Those Greeks believed ... ...erals such as IX or XVII. Double-entry bookkeeping spurs world trade Italians took Arabic numerals another step forward when they used them to i... ...had peaked near the middle of the fourteenth century just before the first Italian paper mills opened. In the aftermath of the plague‘s killing s...

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...ngs and courts in the royal hierarchy. Seife suggests that these scribe-mathematicians probably gained control of the temple warehouses by being a... ... launched a mini-renaissance about five centuries before the start of the Italian Renaissance. The cleric was a scholarly monk named Alcuin. The wa... ... no wide ranging social movements, such as the one developed in the later Italian Renaissance. Invasions by Vikings, Magyars, and Saracens from east... ...als, however, blocked their way to China or India. Similarly, Frankish or Italian merchants were stopped as soon as they tried to travel eastward fro... ...e risen by now? —Johann Carl Friedrich Gaus (1777–1855), ―the prince of mathematicians‖ The Missing Keys to the Science Chest If the alphabet ... ...spelled some of them but not all of them. They also had no zero, but some mathematicians in the Middle Ages used the word ―nulla‖ (Latin for none) i... ...usand years, the advance of Western science stalled because ancient Greek mathematicians thought zero was a dangerous idea. Those Greeks believed th... ...umerals such as IX or XVII. Double-entry bookkeeping spurs world trade Italians took Arabic numerals another step forward when they used them to i... ...had peaked near the middle of the fourteenth century just before the first Italian paper mills opened. In the aftermath of the plague‘s killing som...

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...lden Dragon they make the finest of Chinese food and do unusual French and Italian dishes. They even make a Texas chili, but it‘s too tame for those ... ... —―I understand that even in the Pope‘s backyard that 60% of the Italians don‘t go to confession. Is it because they aren‘t sinning like th... ...a of immortality, belief dropped from 35% to 8%. (26) About twice as many mathematicians believed in a god than did biologists or physicists. ... ...970s Europeans worked about as many hours as Americans, today the French, Italian and Germans work about 1400 hours per working-age person per year ... ..., the Egyptians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, the Syrians, the Iranians, the Italians, the Muslims, the Jews? ―Is possession nine points of the la... ...ead those who would otherwise wander aimlessly. ―For example, the Italians are not having many children. The Pope sees this as a crisis. Mos...

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...udden were not. Friends told me that in Italy, for example, all the great Italian operas that had entered the public domain are no longer there. . . ... ...nguages as hard as I possibly can. So far we have English, Latin, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Welsh, Portu... ...ed for purposes other than pilfering intellectual property digitally. The Italians, Portuguese and Dutch haven't even considered the option. Hardw... ...is without a doubt one of the most brilliant and powerful scientists and mathematicians of the XX century. Apart from his great contributions to ma... ...nd thoughts of Richard Feynman, who was at the same time, one of the best mathematicians of QM and one of its fiercest critics. Listening to Murray G...

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...ot love the children of their masters more than their own children? Today: Italians are known as a culturally non-violent Nation… They are now on... ...w one of the most peaceful and fun- loving cultures in Europe. Try to find an Italian raised in Italy who is brave physically… try to find a fighter,... ...ch millionaire hostages for money began in Italy. The kidnappers thought the Italians were such cowards that they would cave in and pay the money w... ...nted down every single kidnapper, and jailed them, and executed them. Today, Italians no longer use the detested crib method any longer to raise the... ...cal. The concept, the idea of identicality comes from mathematical numbers. Mathematicians assume that all numbers are identical to each other. T... ...give him the privilege of making them even richer. He was denied. He was an Italian. The only ruler who let him do it was the Queen of Spain. We... ...soning their DNA, poisoning their inner auras. They do not pick out the best mathematicians, or the best dancers, or the superficially pretties girl... ...idiotic issue. Thousands of pages were written about his important subject. Mathematicians came up with specific numbers. One would claim that 1,...

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...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ...taphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with the struc... ...ion of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean t... ...raction of these are likely to communicate with us. But, if this is true, to quote Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: "where are they?". Ferm...

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...ay? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, political parties the world over ... ...taphors. Metaphors are not confined to the philosophy of neurology. Architects and mathematicians, for instance, have lately come up with the struc... ...ion of an artwork (e.g., a musical piece) in terms of this type of intuition. Many mathematicians and physicists (following a kind of Pythagorean t... ...raction of these are likely to communicate with us. But, if this is true, to quote Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi: "where are they?". Ferm...

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... of the old Dutch masters and the dazzling warmth and abounding joy of the Italians. You have tried to follow, at one and the same time, Hans Holbein ... ...These figures, the saint and the boatman, have a subtile meaning which the Italian painters cannot give. I do not know one of them who could have inve... ...p, self-developed discourage- ments, whose cause, if we are to believe the mathematicians of health, lies in a bad digestion, in the wind, in the weat...

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...e resistance, so they could expect no mercy. These people are most excellent mathematicians, and arrived to a great perfection in mechanics, by the co... ... least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose. After about two hours ... ...w they came to fix on that determinate number, he told me that his majesty’s mathematicians, having taken the height of my body by the help of a quadr... ...rds the whole kingdom. The word imports what the Latins call nanunculus, the Italians homunceletino, and the English mannikin. To her I chiefly owe m... ...em called out in a clear, polite, smooth dialect, not unlike in sound to the Italian: and therefore I returned an answer in that language, hoping at l... ...rty opin ion. I have indeed observed the same disposition among most of the mathematicians I have known in Europe, although I could never discover th... ...al diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. In an other, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals. I h...

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...turn- attack of fever,—not, the count stated pointedly, in the hands of an Italian physician. He had brought his own with him to meet his son, who was... ...ed himself: ‘Signore, there be hereditary qualifications. One must be born Italian to appreciate the merits of Nostrani!’ Roland laughed. He had cover... ...tely that he had, Palmet cried, ‘Oh! for dancing, the Frenchwoman beat the Italian.’ ‘Did you see her often—more than once?’ 149 George Meredith ‘My ... ...- atres, promenades, rides, churches.’ ‘ And you say she dressed up to the Italian, to challenge her, rival her?’ ‘Only one night; simple accident. Ev... ...s my sight to be imperfect: but will you ever do so?’ Her musical voice in Italian charmed his hearing. ‘What poet was that you quoted?’ ‘The wisest: ... ... are for lifting our clay soil on a lever of Archimedes, and are not great mathematicians. They have perchance a foot of our earth, and perpetually do...

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... we say in Greek, Greek words at that time not being as yet overpowered by Italian. But if this be the case, and if the Romans did at that time use th... ...rote to one of the kings with an account of the expedition, three thousand Italians that were not Romans, and his left wing consisting of five thousan... ...en the two extreme, to find the two mean lines of a proportion, both these mathematicians had recourse to the aid of instru- ments, adapting to their ... ...ors sent into Epirus, not only in their own names, but in those of all the Italian Greeks, carrying presents to Pyrrhus, and letting him know they wan... ...w if before the war they would decide the differences between them and the Italian Greeks by his arbitrament and media- tion. But Laevinus returning a... ...ressed by the en- emy. Here Leonnatus the Macedonian, observing one of the Italians very intent upon Pyrrhus, riding up towards him, and changing plac...

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...lept at the Pont Beauvosin that night, and on the mor- row parted with her Italian attendants without shedding a single tear. On the 4th of November s... ...he died a few years after. The King at this time drove away the company of Italian actors, and would not permit another in its place. So long as the I... ...resentations, given con- secutively on account of the gain it brought, the Italians re- ceived orders to close their theatre and to quit the realm in ... ...r repugnance to abandon herself to the caprices and the jealousy of an old Italian ‘debauche’ the horror she felt at the idea of being left alone with... ...ear, so as to com- plete that subject at once. M. de Vendome commenced his Italian campaign by a victory. He attacked the troops of Prince Eugene upon... ...ten the admiration of the historian, of jurisconsults, of astronomers, and mathematicians, the most profound. He was especially learned in genealogies...

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..., as we have shown in his life. Caesar called in the best philosophers and mathematicians of his time to settle the point, and out of the systems he h... ..., the philosopher. Diophanes was a refugee from Mitylene, the other was an Italian, of the city of Cuma, and was educated there under Antipater of Tar... ...o was not full seventeen years old; another gave the same right to all the Italians in general, of voting at elections, as was enjoyed by the citizens... ...ween the citizens and their confederates, and underhand to be inciting the Italians to rebel; though there was little other evidence of the truth of t... ... brothers should put brothers to death was assumed, like the postulates of mathematicians, as the common and recognized royal first principle of safet... ...s, under the command of Menas, the pirate, and Menecrates, so infested the Italian coast, that no vessels durst venture into those seas. Sextus had be...

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...ght of science is made to consist in the answering of riddles! and all the mathematicians and magicians bring their great beards to bear on a conundru... ... a much more Eastern look than the European quarter, with its Anglo-Gallic-Italian inhab- itants, and Babel-like civilisation. Here and there a large ... ...the town, who conveyed it in a language com- posed of French, Spanish, and Italian, and with a volubility quite worthy of a barber of “Gil Blas. ” The... ...and military Commanders, finding England here in a French hotel kept by an Italian, at the city of Grand Cairo, in Africa. On retiring to bed you take...

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...son. Joseph Mirouet, a singer and com- poser, having made his debut at the Italian opera under a feigned name, ran away with a young lady in Germany. ... ...ng to have a voice,” he said; “and I shall give you masters of drawing and Italian also. A woman,” added the doctor, looking at Ursula as he unfastene... ...hair and stroking his chin with the gesture common to valets on the stage, mathematicians, and priests,—a sign of profound meditation on a problem tha...

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...iritual or purely material; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand money, or agricultur... ... her face. The charms which particularly distinguished this woman were the Italian ease of her artistic nature, her ready compre- hension, and the gra... ...rest of the wave, and you should have taken, like Monsieur de Villele, the Italian motto ‘Col tempo,’ in other words, ‘All things are given to him who...

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...id, turning the con- tents of the measure into a glass in the manner of an Italian waiter measuring whisky. “Sit with the eyes tightly shut and in abs... ... received it just before morning school, and had opened it when the junior mathematicians were well under way. Pres- ently she resumed reading with an...

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...ell; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constitutes the education of a well-brought- u... ...ndiffer- ence to matters of religion. Like most geometricians, chem- ists, mathematicians, and great naturalists, he had subjected religion to reason;... ...“Was one of my first lodgers. It was there she made ac- quaintance with an Italian, a handsome man, and rich, a political refugee, but one of the loft... ...pot of money for madame, for she managed to get im- mense sums out of that Italian. Well, would you believe that when—being just then in great need—I ... ...ose relations to the police, she gave the govern- ment a lot of papers the Italian left about carelessly, on which they expelled him from France.” “We...

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... received it just before morning school, and had opened it when the junior mathematicians were well under way. Pres- ently she resumed reading with an... ...said, turning the contents of the measure into a glass in the manner of an Italian waiter mea- suring whisky. “Sit with the eyes tightly shut and in a...

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... this land, we soon arrived at another in which the bees and the birds are mathematicians of such genius and eru- dition, that they give daily instruc... ...g of an infinity of big books, during a long series of years, that the men-mathematicians at length arrived at the identical solutions which had been ... ...ture. During the latter part of the last century, the question arose among mathematicians—”to determine the best form that can be given to the sails o... ...and futile attempts to answer the queryon the part of the most illustrious mathematicians, and when at length, an undeniable soloution was discovered,... ...ted and even feared. He prided himself on his connoisseurship in wine. Few Italians have the true virtuoso spirit. For the most part their enthusiasm ... ...In this respect I did not differ from him materially: I was skilful in the Italian vintages myself, and bought largely whenever I could. It was about ... ...l gloom. The great clock of the Pi- azza had sounded the fifth hour of the Italian evening. The square of the Campanile lay silent and deserted, and t... ...ither the grotesques of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egypt. Rich draperies in e... ...d where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, By what Italian streams. Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee ...

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...g forgotten how to throb, even when a woman’s dowry was the stake. A young Italian, olive- hued and dark-haired, sat at one end, with his elbows on th... ...it? The jaded elders, the fossilized waiters, the onlookers, the fanatical Italian him- self, felt an indefinable dread at sight of the stranger. Is h... ...wakened was so great that the old gamesters laid nothing upon it; only the Italian, inspired by a gambler’s enthusiasm, smiled suddenly at some though... ...d wins,” said the croupier officially. A dumb sort of rattle came from the Italian’s throat when he saw the folded notes that the banker showered upon... ...ed his example,” said an old gamester to the others, as he pointed out the Italian. Everybody looked at the lucky player, whose hands shook as he coun... ...sins, and finally to build an asylum on purpose for impoverished or insane mathematicians.” “That would be exceedingly useful,” Planchette replied. “W...

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...ing success of Aretino must not be forgotten, nor the licence of the whole Italian comic theatre of the sixteenth century. The Calandra of Bibbiena, w... ...th ordinary French. It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to French, would have lent it... ... J. Tenhoorn. The name attached to it, Claudio Gallitalo (Claudius French- Italian) must certainly be a pseudonym. Only a Dutch scholar could identify... ...n- troversy, is that Rabelais owed much to one of his contem- poraries, an Italian, to the Histoire Macaronique of Merlin Coccaie. Its author, Theophi... ...elaborately fabri- cated style. It is not dog Latin, but Latin ingeniously italianized, or rather Italian, even Mantuan, latinized. The contrast betwe... ...im who is the wisest of the troop. In approbation also of this fashion the mathematicians allow the very same horo- scope to princes and to sots. Wher... ...gers, fortune-tellers, alchemists, rhymers, poets, painters, projec- tors, mathematicians, watchmakers, sing-songs, musicianers, and the devil and all...

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...e that I can only speak with that species of indefinite definiteness which mathematicians are, at times, forced to put up with in certain algebraic fo... ...scrit, or Chickasaw. There is no passing muster, however, without Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Greek. I must look you out a little specimen of... ... ‘huomo che non se’n era accorto, Andava combattendo, e era morto.’ That’s Italian, you perceive—from Ariosto. It means that a great hero, in the heat... ... is what he has been bargaining 111 V olume Four about with Nicolino, the Italian Jew.” This idea satisfied me, and I dismissed my curiosity for the ... ...of building. There are the stately avenues and retirements of V ersailles; Italian terraces; and a various mixed old English style, which bears some r... ...ring the play- ing of a game at chess by the Turk, and, secondly, that the Italian being taken seriously ill, the exhibition was suspended until his r... ... and for ever, was actuated by the one movement of the hand. This fact the mathematicians of our globe well knew. They made the special effects, indee... ...en condi- tions, in determining the value of the original impulse. Now the mathematicians who saw that the results of any given impulse were absolutel...

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...BORATORY TESTS OF THE VIVISECTOR’S EMOTIONS TAKE THE HACKNEYED CASE of the Italian who tortured mice, ostensibly to find out about the effects of pain... ... the nearest policeman, or, failing him, to any sane person in Europe. The Italian is diagnosed as a cruel voluptuary: the dog-starver is passed over ... ...ifficult technical business, not to be tackled successfully except by high mathematicians; and I cannot resist Professor Karl Pearson’s immense con- t... ...ising the authorities, keep the government itself free of superstition. If Italian peas- ants are so ignorant that the Church can get no hold of them ...

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... 40 Your scene precariously subsists too long On French translation and Italian song. Dare to have sense yourselves; assert the stage, Be justly wa... ..., Sophonisba rose; The tragic Muse, returning, wept her woes. With her th’ Italian scene first learn’d to glow, And the first tears for her were taugh... ...rbon’s feet her silken sons; Or Tiber, now no longer Roman, rolls, Vain of Italian arts, Italian souls: 300 To happ... ...tone? Thy truffles, Perigord! thy hams, Bayonne! With French libation, and Italian strain, Wash Bladen white, and expiate Hays’s stain. 444 ... ...rroneous translations of the Common Prayer in Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, &c. As for my genius, let Mr Cleland show better verses in all Pop... ...kingdom.—P . 380 ‘Mad Máthesis:’ alluding to the strange conclusions some mathematicians have deduced from their principles, concern- ing the real qu... ...W . 429 ‘Moral evidence:’ alluding to a ridiculous and absurd way of some mathematicians in calculating the gradual de- cay of moral evidence by math...

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...essity I can turn to account some scraps of German and a little oper- atic Italian; but these I was never taught at school. Instead, I was taught lyin... ...h symphony, because they never hiss when it is mur- dered. I have heard an Italian conductor (no longer living) take the adagio of that symphony at a ... ...“captains of industry” or scientific politicians than our book- makers are mathematicians. For some time past a significant word has been coming into ...

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...certain knowledge of and assent to them; and, by this means, there will be no difference between the maxims of the mathematicians, and theo- rems they... ...ill not dispute whether this acceptation of the word solid be nearer to its original signification than that which mathematicians use it in. It suffic... ...hose stock is inexhaustible and truly infinite: and what a large and immense field doth extension alone afford the mathematicians? Chapter VIII Some f... ...any object of sense, or operation of our mind, has, nevertheless, as all our other ideas, its original there. Some mathematicians perhaps, of advanced... ...he properties of that one, no very com- pound figure, a triangle; though it be no small number that are already by mathematicians discovered of it. 1... ...ation. The terms of our law, which are not empty sounds, will hardly find words that answer them in the Spanish or Italian, no scanty lan- guages; muc...

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...t, opposite to the Romish Chapel. It was two pair of stairs backwards, at an Italian warehouse. A widow lady kept the house; she had a daughter, and a... ...tobiography of Benjamin Franklin 56 pleasing companion; as, like most great mathematicians I have met with, he expected universal precision in everyt... ...f the French as to be able to read the books with ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance, who was also learning it, us’d often to tempt m... ...language entirely. But, when I had attained an acquaintance with the French, Italian, and Span ish, I was surpriz’d to find, on looking over a Latin ... ...ould not have been better to have begun with the French, pro ceeding to the Italian, etc.; for, tho’, after spending the same time, they should quit ... ... Sciences, took up my cause and refuted him; my book was translated into the Italian, German, and Latin languages; and the doctrine it contain’d was b...

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...im less by 63 Thomas de Quincey much than the one he succeeded: he had an Italian appear- ance, and he wore an air of Italian subtlety and dissimula-... ...of Europe observed him. But now, up and down Europe, from the deep blue of Italian skies to the cold frosty atmospheres of St. Petersburg and Glasgow,... ...the inevitable catastrophe could be delayed no longer. The com- mander, an Italian named Morandi, was a brave man; any fate appeared better than that ... ...e of the vessel Napoleon read an augury of the fate which had befallen the Italian territory. Considered as a dependency of France, he felt certain th... ... and critical through every stage, it was the pointed contrast between his Italian campaigns and 235 Thomas de Quincey those of his successors which ... ...ans, and was here finally settled, after having occupied most of the great mathematicians of Europe for more than half a century. It was dedicated to ... ...e we must attribute its being so little known amongst the philosophers and mathematicians of foreign coun- tries, and also the fact that D’Alembert, w...

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...inherited variation. Who can believe that animals closely re- sembling the Italian greyhound, the bloodhound, the bull-dog, or Blenheim spaniel, &c.—s... ...ss, we must admit the former ex- istence of the most extreme forms, as the Italian grey- 26 On the Origin of Species hound, bloodhound, bull-dog, &c.... ...make cells, which have practically anticipated the discoveries of profound mathematicians? Fourthly, how can we account for species, when crossed, bei... ...utifully adapted to its end, without enthusiastic admiration. We hear from mathematicians that bees have practi- cally solved a recondite problem, and...

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... duties. Why need I go gadding into the scenes and philosophy of Greek and Italian history before I have justified myself to my benefactors? How dare ... ...ough all. I remember when in my younger days I had heard of the wonders of Italian painting, I fancied the great pic- tures would be great strangers; ... ...f good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians if you will, to say that the shortness of life considered, i... ...ith his consul’s paper which commends him “To the charitable,” the swarthy Italian with his few broken words of English, the lame pauper hunted by ove...

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... us- ing different conceptions and assuming different atti- tudes, just as mathematicians handle the same numeri- cal and spatial facts by geometry, b... ...for some days he was unable to banish [121] My quotations are made from an Italian trans- lation of this letter in the Biografia del sig. M. A. Ratisb... ...han where the controlling emotion is religious. “The true monk,” writes an Italian mystic, “takes nothing with him but his lyre.” We may now turn from...