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• Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic.
  A fourth affirms, with Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether -- whose existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation ....
• Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic.
  A fourth affirms, with Haeckel, the condensation or precipitation of matter from ether -- whose existence is proved by the condensation or precipitation....
• MOLECULE, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.
  It is distinguished from the corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter....
• MAGNITUDE, n. Size. Magnitude being purely relative, nothing is large and nothing small.
  If everything in the universe were increased in bulk one thousand diameters nothing would be any larger than it was before, but if one thing remain unchanged all the others would be larger than they had been....
• PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place to place in order to avoid his pupil's objections.
  A needless precaution -- they knew no more of the matter than he....
• Abroad, adj. At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable
  o be an American abroad is to make others miserable....
• HOURI, n. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulma
  whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul....
• WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can with some difficulty be made, and which is used also for bread.
  The French are said to eat more bread _per capita_ of population than any other people, which is natural, for only they know how to make the stuff palatable....
• Scientific Method: The widely held philosophy that a theory can never be proved, only disproved, and that all attempts to explain anything are therefore futile.
  -- The Ultimate Scientific Dictionary...