I reject, then, even when advanced by the most thoroughly informed, the pretended proof of the existence of God drawn from the presence of order in the world; I see in it at most only an equation offered to philosophy.
Ultramundane society has its left and its right: it is time for the equation to be completed; for this mystical hierarchy to descend upon earth and appear in its real character.
If the radius of the rolling circle be one-half of the fixed circle, the hypocycloid becomes a diameter of this circle; this may be confirmed from the equation to the hypocycloid.
How far is such anequation in accord with the chronological data at our disposal?
So far as I can see, it is only by Dr Mackenzie's equation of the Homeric poems with the Warrior Vase and certain East Cretan graves (cf.
The equationtherefore seems to be fully justified.
When V is constant, this equation represents an equipotential surface.
When determining the constants, we write for E in the equation the observed value of the element (corrected for secular change, &c.
War was being waged against Louis of France, and the executive must not be hampered in the work of raising money; moreover the personal equation had disappeared, the barons did not need to protect themselves against John.
This equation gives the same rate of decrease in all three components, and so no change in declination or inclination.
Liznar[86a] compared this equation with the observed results of his Austrian survey, subdividing his stations into three groups according to altitude.
The term Personal Equation is used chiefly in connection with scientific observation, as in Astronomy.
The virgate, it may be noted, consisted of a strip of land in each acre of the hide, and there is undoubtedly a strong case in favour of the equation 1 hide = 4 virgates.
His functions in this type of equation closely approached those of the differential calculus.
Human lives, enter into the equation of these values.
Financial Success, however is not the complete product of these factors when selfishness, greed and wasteful competition are eliminated from the equation by the substitution of unselfish co-operation.
This gives the absolute equation of the observers, and their difference is the relative equation, and should accord with that found by the method of alternate stars.
At this time there were made at Carcavellos, some experiments with a view to making the receipt of the time signals over the cable automatic, thus doing away with the personal equation of the receiver.
In June 1884, one year later, another series of observations of the same character was made at the Naval Observatory in Washington, and on the same nights the personal equation machine invented by Prof.
When preparations were being made for this expedition, it was determined to accomplish if possible something in the way of getting rid of the personal equation in exchanging signals.
In longitude measurements the error from this cause is half the difference of the personalequation of the two observers.
The following equation will explain the successive stages of the reaction:-- a.
When the pressure is either higher or lower, both water and alcohol boil at a somewhat different temperature, to meet which a barometrical equation is attached to the thermometer by means of a small subsidiary scale.
There is always a personal equation in all our judgments, so that we feel that they require to be amended by comparison with those of others.
But the plutocratic civilization is much better than it should logically be, bad as it is; for the personal equation constantly modifies it, and renders it far less dreadful than you would reasonably expect.
In connection with this subject I would say that many experimenters claim to have shown that the skin friction on screws is considerable, in fact, so great as to be a very important factor in the equation of flight.
As the mathematicalequation is an extremely simple one, it is easily presented so as to be understood by any one having the least smattering of mathematical or engineering knowledge.
However, all the factors in the equation are extremely simple and well known, and no one can dispute any of them except the assumed coefficient of resistance, which is given here as .
The logical end of all action is happiness; and happiness, so far as it depends on economic conditions at all, is an equation between desire and attainment.
Between the law of multiplication and the law of limitation, then, it is impossible to establish an equation from which could be deduced the actual population.
Rotation for this chief of staff depends largely on the personal equation of the head of the unit and of his various assistants.
Like the average miles per car per day, does not the equation contain too many variables to admit of a very exact solution?
On the other hand, the task imposed upon a train crew is extremely definite and easy to measure, when the equation can be solved for all the variables.
Common sense and the personal equation of the officials concerned indicate how far this elastic feature can be carried.
Where feudalism exists the effective working strength is limited to the personalequation of the man at the head.
The variables in the human equation defy entire elimination.
The splendid personal equation of railroad officials often serves to carry an illogical organization in spite of its fundamental defects.
All of this quite aside from what may be termed the personal equation of the individual.
After a minute or so, he seemed to have solved this equation and lost all further interest in the problem, for he began to examine the audience.
In all beings the internal character is so closely allied to the external form, that it appears to be only an equation of the latter.
My mathematics is very rusty, he said to himself, but I seem to remember something about a locus, which was a curve or a surface every point on which satisfied some particular equation of relation among the coordinates.
It begins to look to me as though life might be a kind of locus, whose commanding equation we call God.
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