Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Predige, effectually finished it. The Doctor is a Geheimrath now, and the Grafin is his wife! What do you say to that ? She had enough sense and strength of mind to have thrown caste to the winds, and married the plebeian Doctor, but the Privy Councillorship has luckily prevented the necessity of such a frightful breach of etiquette. But my father will tell you about the business. He has had lots of letters from all of them. Leave that to the evening and come with me :—my eleven will be savage if we don’t give them some swift round-hand this afternoon. There was nothing for it but to accompany the enthusiast, who kept us at work till the first dinner-bell rang. After dinner, which for once reminded us of old times, because Mr. Bemerton and his wife were present, Stephen Fairbank produced a mass of correspondence, from which he ex- tracted a few characteristic letters sufficiently connected to form a nearly continuous, though of course not exhaustive, narrative.
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