He returned in the month of August to Kouka; from there he successively traversed the Mandara, Barghimi, and Klanem countries, and reached his extreme limit in the east, the town of Masena, situated at seventeen
degrees twenty minutes west longitude.
It is with us a Law of Nature that the brain of the Isosceles class shall begin at half a
degree, or thirty minutes, and shall increase(if it increases at all) by half a
degree in every generation; until the goal of 60
degrees is reached, when the condition of serfdom is quitted, and the freeman enters the class of Regulars.
It was now but 140
degrees, although we had penetrated to a depth of nearly four miles.
This was a recognition that had never in the slightest manner entered into my mind, and it was hard for me to realize that I was to be honoured by a
degree from the oldest and most renowned university in America.
may be more truly said of the historian and biographer, than of any other species of writing; for all the arts and sciences (even criticism itself) require some little
degree of learning and knowledge.
But for the third
degree, which is simulation, and false profession; that I hold more culpable, and less politic; except it be in great and rare matters.
However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some
degree true.
20" and 140
degrees 10" West longitude from Greenwich.
From 67@ 30' to 90@, twenty-two
degrees and a half of latitude remained to travel; that is, about five hundred leagues.
For if we should say that justice admitted of variation of
degree, difficulties might ensue, and this is true with regard to all those qualities which are dispositions.
He raised a certain building in his court-yard by a story, which shutting out the sun, took half a
degree of warmth from Boxtel's garden, and, on the other hand, added half a
degree of cold in winter; not to mention that it cut the wind, and disturbed all the horticultural calculations and arrangements of his neighbour.
Thus, as I believe, natural selection will always succeed in the long run in reducing and saving every part of the organisation, as soon as it is rendered superfluous, without by any means causing some other part to be largely developed in a corresponding
degree. And, conversely, that natural selection may perfectly well succeed in largely developing any organ, without requiring as a necessary compensation the reduction of some adjoining part.
