Lowell, Percival, 1855-1916 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 266
simile flatters the bees. To follow the vicissi-tudes of any one molecule in this hurly-burly wouldbe out of the question; still more, it would seem, that ofall of them at once. Yet no less Herculean a task con-fronts us. To find out about their motions, we are DEATH OF A WORLD 227 therefore driven… … Illustrating molecular motion in a gas (black molecules here con-sidered AT rest). week when we know nothing about the people, or aboutcolds, or about catching them. At first sight it mightseem as if we could never discover anything in thishopelessly ignorant way, and as if we had almost bettercall…
Cosmogony
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