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Deflections may be due to irregularity of density within the earth or to attraction of parts of the earth above the surface of the mean spheroid. By an ingenious method, partly graphical, the author had found it practicable to take account of the influence of all known topographical features on the plumbline at the more than 200 stations; it is usually necessary to consider all the land masses with in 2500 miles of the station. When these computed deflections from known causes are combined with the deflections found from geodetic mesasurments, the quantities to be accounted for by irregularities within the earth`s surface are usually much greater than had been supposed heretofore. One of the milder or less harmful but at the same time most conspicuous manifestations of htis confusion is connected with the word interesting. Not unfrequently an essay ostensibly and mainly scientific will contain the statement that an an object or relation or other phenomenon is interesting the context indicating that interest is supposed to inhere in the phenomenon. As a matter of fact, interest is a mental attitude of the observer and the adjective interesting though applied to the phenomenon describes only the observer relation to it. There are of course, many legitmate uses of the adjective and some of these occur in scientific writings, when an author for example, declare that the insect habits he is about to describe are interesting to students of the psychology of the Bombocoreide it is clear that he does not decide himself by supposing that he has named a property of the phemonena. Something similar may be said of important valuable etc, When employed in scientific descripition. In common with moved pertinent significant and the like they indicate the realtion of phenomena to the condition of human knowledge Just as each observed fact has at same time temporarly the quality of naverlty. The one thing she seems to aira at is idnividually, yet she cares nothing for individuals. She is always building up and destroying but her workshop is inaccessible. Her life is in her children; but where is the mother? She is only artist; working up the most uniform material into utter opposition: arriving without a trace of effort at perfection at the most exact precision though always veiled under a certain softness. Each of her works has an essence of its own; each of her phenomena a special characterstics and yet their diversity is in unity. She performs a play we know not whether she sees it herself, and yet she acts for us, the lookers on, Increassant life development and movement are in her, but she advances not. She changes for ever and ever and rests not a moment. Quietude is Inconveivable to her, and she has laid her curse upon rest. She is firm. Her steps are measured, her exceptions rare, her laws. She has always thought and always though not as a man but as Nature. She broods over an all Idea, which no searching is out.