Category: History - Modern (1750+)
Perhaps there is no civilized institution to which, man has accommodated himself with so ill a grace as monogamy. Hardly a perversion of it has ever existed but may still be found. Polygamy is widely spread in the most advanced communities; temporary polyandrous _ménages à tro...
Perhaps the most remarkable defect in the older or literary methods of education was the neglect of the faculty of observation. For the training of the other mental faculties am...
12. Part 12These sea worms, or annelids, as the scientific scholars call them, build up for themselves the brown tubes that resemble the rough stems of pines or palms, and from the top the...
10. Part 10As long as the State pays the entire expense bill, however, there will be a natural restiveness on the part of the taxpayers; the prison management, no matter how careful it is,...
18. Part 18=Pre-Columbian Musical Instruments in America.=--In a recent article in the Popular Science Monthly (November, 1898), entitled Was Middle America Peopled from Asia? I insisted t...
11. Part 11To any one who is at all familiar with the conspicuous part which the theories of close killing, and especially overdriving, played in the British contention before the Paris Tr...
5. Part 5The eyes are eight in number. Two of them are close together, on opposite sides of a slightly elevated ridge at the front of the cephalo-thorax. These eyes are bright, black, an...
4. Part 4But this observation of the ethics of war does not stop with the close of the polls, where bribery, intimidation, and fraud are practiced, and the honest or dishonest count of t...
16. Part 16We must say that this action on the part of the Canadian authorities strikes us very favorably, and we should be greatly pleased if we could see similar proceedings taken nearer...
9. Part 9Such principles as these could easily have been made a fundamental part of the California prison system when the State was organized, for the famous Code of Reform and Prison Di...
2. Part 2The development of doctrine runs a fourth parallel to those of buildings, cult, and organization, and in a brief space it recapitulates a long history. In early colonial communi...
1. Part 1Perhaps there is no civilized institution to which, man has accommodated himself with so ill a grace as monogamy. Hardly a perversion of it has ever existed but may still be fou...
15. Part 15The end of the second part of _L'Origine de l'Homme et des Sociétés_ is devoted to the most complex problem of anthropology--that of the beginning of speech and the origin of la...
14. Part 14True, it is unusual to find a young girl with an independent fortune; but she may marry rich, and what a help she would be to a sensible man if she were capable of aiding him in...
6. Part 6Even using this word as in a measure synonymous with religious affiliations, the Turks form but a small and decreasing minority in the Balkan Peninsula. Couvreur affirms that no...
3. Part 3Enchanting as this picture is, one that can be found in the speeches of every demagogue, male and female, as well as in the works of every political philosopher of the orthodox...
7. Part 7Bulgarian is spoken, as our map at page 614 indicates, far outside the present political limits of the principality--indeed, over about two thirds of European Turkey. Gop[vc]evi...
8. Part 8+---------------------------------+--------------------------------- | 1897. | 1898. +----------+---------+------------+----------+---------+------------ COUNTRIES. | Fine | Kil...
17. Part 17The first number of _In Lantern Land_, a monthly journal "devoted to literature, the fine arts, the play, with some discussion of passing events," _Charles Dexter Allen_ and _Wi...
19. Part 19=Forest Planting on the Plains.=--Mr. Charles A. Keffer, in a report to the Forestry Division on Experimental Tree Planting in the Plains, defines the forestless region of Ameri...