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…, in spite of the general theme of 'the invisible hand' promoting the harmony of interests, Smith finds many more occasions for pointing out cases of conflict and of the narrow selfishness of human motives. Smith now began to give more attention…

…. The mysteries of birth and death, the lapse of conscious life during sleep and in swooning, even the commonest operations of imagination and memory, which! abstract a man from his bodily presence even while awake-all such facts invincibly suggest the existence…

…WHEN Roosevelt returned to Washington in March, 1897, to take up his duties as a subordinate officer in the National Government, he was thirty-eight years old; a man in the prime of life, with the strength of an ox, but quick in movement, and tough…

…life originated there. b. anaximenes- And the form of the air is as follows. Where it is most even, it is invisible to our sight; but cold and heat, moisture and motion, make it visible. It is always in motion; for, if it were not, it would not change so…

…on the relation of technology to culture. The relation as he sees it is one in which culture is subservient to and controlled by both invisible (I.Q. scores, statistics, polling techniques) and visible (television, computers, automobiles) technologies. Technology…

…in developing a child’s thinking, it is the home where a child first learns how to think. In her work on childhood development, The Invisible Heart, Nancy Folbre writes that, “The child’s personality evolves as a composite of all things social…but a child’s…

…for this is that when the sun is north of the equator the visible arcs of its course are all greater than a semicircle, and go on increasing, while the invisible arc is small, but when the sun is south of the equator the visible arc is small and the invisible arc great…

…comprised mostly of the way the mother was much less able to care for Emily. The forsaken of Emily demonstrates the importance of physical and emotional support. The mother was an invisible parent for Emily. Her reason for not being there for Emily…

…. She stopped time, at least in her mind. Miss Emily is “a small, fat woman in black, with a gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt.” “Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the chain.” In this case…

…. The reason for this is that when the sun is north of the equator the visible arcs of its course are all greater than a semicircle, and go on increasing, while the invisible arc is small, but when the sun is south of the equator the visible arc is small…