Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to whom the surrounding district had, genera- tions ago, belonged. When pressed upon this subject he was understood to admit the soft impeachment, alleging at the same time the engrossing claims of his parish duties as an excuse for the non- completion of his literary work. Our catalogue would be incomplete if we forgot the distinguished East Indian, Sir Ken- neth M‘Kelpie, K.S.I., who was one of the guests on the present occasion. A Scot of Scots, he had very much of the shrewdness of his countrymen, with perhaps a tinge of some of their peculiarities. As an instance of the former we may re- mark that in early life he had been content to forsake the barren glories of his hereditary moor for more profitable if less exalted pastures in the East. As an instance of the latter, Sir Kenneth, if he did not believe in second-sight, and its long train of affiliated mysteries, was yet dis- posed to represent the subject as one which, in
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