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e know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

The creation or evolution of the stars or the heavens. H. Spencer.

A sixpence. [Slang, Eng.]

A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence. Nares.

f a family whose labor supplies the food of the family; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.

ecognize. The reasoning faculty can deal with no facts until they are cognized by it. H. Spencer.

intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer.

en indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.

. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer.

To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompence; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.

ry temperatures, but condenses into a very volatile liquid at the zero of Fahrenheit. H. Spencer.

in kind between either two changes in consciousness, or two states of consciousness. H. Spencer.

ollowed by desistance . . . then would the system be but seldom out of working order. H. Spencer.

f dietetics lies in determining whether or not bread is more nutritive than potatoes. H. Spencer.

city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions. H. Spencer.

words drop from the lips. Mutilations of which the meaning has dropped out of memory. H. Spencer. When the sound of dropping nuts is heard. Bryant.

, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region." J. Spencer.

ge carpenter . . . lays out his work by empirical rules learnt in his apprenticeship. H. Spencer.

] The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence. Sir J. Davies.