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The provided passages do not contain information about the practical implications of any particular subject within the book "Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist (autobiography)". The passages discuss various topics such as spiritual interests [1], places like Arafat [2] and Bicêtre [1], historical figures like François Arago [2] and Bela IV [3], and literary characters [3], but none of these are presented in a way that explains practical implications in the context of a physicist's autobiography.
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t in a speculative or a scientific, but a spiritual interest, and that its final aim is to guide men in the way of life. The spirit in which it is composed is the spirit of conviction; its essence, both in the root of it and the fruit of it, is faith, and that primarily in a moral power above, and ultimately a moral principle within, both equally divine. The one principle of the book is that loyalty to the divine commands is the one foundation of all well-being, individual and social. Biblia Pauperum ( i. e . Bible of the Poor), a book consisting of some 50 leaves, with pictures of scenes in…
en heaven and hell for those who are from incapacity either not morally bad or morally good. Arafat′ , a granite hill E. of Mecca, a place of pilgrimage as the spot where Adam received his wife after 200 years separation from her on account of their disobedience to the Lord in deference to the suggestion of Satan. Ar′ago, François , an eminent physicist and astronomer, born in the S. of France, entered the Polytechnic School of Paris when seventeen, elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at the early age of twenty-three, nominated Director of the Observatory in 1830, was member of the…
great many measures for the permanent benefit of the country, affecting both religion and social organisation. Bela IV. , king of Hungary, son of Andreas II., who had in 1222 been compelled to sign the Golden Bull, the Magna Charta of Hungarian liberty; faithfully respected the provisions of this charter, and incurred the enmity of the nobles by his strenuous efforts to subdue them to the royal power. Belch, Sir Toby , a reckless, jolly, swaggering character in “Twelfth Night.” Belcher, Sir Edward , admiral, was engaged in several exploring and surveying expeditions; sailed round the world,…
Prince, Duke of Brittany , heir to the throne of England by the death of his uncle Richard I.; supplanted by King John. Arthur Seat , a lion-shaped hill 822 ft., close to Edinburgh on the E., from the top of which the prospect is unrivalled; “the blue, majestic, everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind it on the N.; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet ('where not a hillock rears its head unsung'), with Edinburgh at their base, clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged, black, venerable…
f Virgo. Astræa Redux , the name given to an era which piques itself on the return of the reign of justice to the earth. As′trakhan (43), a Russian trading town on the Volga, 40 m. from its mouth in the Caspian Sea, of which it is the chief port. Astral body , an ethereal body believed by the theosophists to invest the animal, to correspond to it, and to be capable of Bilocation ( q. v .) Astral spirits , spirits believed to animate or to people the heavenly bodies, to whom worship was paid, and to hover unembodied through space exercising demonic influence on embodied spirits. Astrology , a…