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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. SUPPORTERS"Standing by the Shield In silence." -IDYLLS OF THE KING.A SUPPORTER is a figure, sometimes of an angel, frequently of a humanbeing, but more generally of some animal, bird, or imaginary creature, soplaced in connection with a Shield of Arms as to appear to be protecting andsupporting it. In English Heraldry a single Supporter is of comparativelyrare occurrence, but a number of examples are to be found in the Heraldry ofScotland. In early examples, when two Supporters appear, they are in mostcases alike: but, more recently (except in the Heraldry of France), the twofigures are generally quite distinct the one from the other, the earlier usage ofhaving the two Supporters alike being less frequent. The modern prevailingpractice in England is happily exemplified in the well-known instance of thepresent Royal Supporters, the Lion and the Unicorn.Supporters are considered to have been introduced into theHeraldry of Eng-land during the reign of EDWARD III.; but they may with greater accuracybe assigned to the middle of the fifteenth century, than to the second halfof the fourteenth. As armorial insignia of a very high rank, Supporters are3 CHARLES BOUTELLgranted in England only by the express command of the Sovereign, except toPeers and Knights Grand Cross and Knights Grand Commanders. In Scot-land, where they occur more frequently than in the Heraldry of the Southof the Tweed, the "Lord Lyon" has power to grant Supporters. Originallyby the Scottish Heralds these accessories of Shields were entitled "Bearers."Supporters are now granted, on payment of fees, to all Peers of the Realm todescend to the holders of a specified Peerage, and to Knights of the Garter, Thistle, and St. Patrick, and to Knights Grand Cross and Knights GrandCommanders of all other orders of knighthood to be borne for life. MostNova Scotia Baronets and Chiefs of Scottish Clans have supporters regis-tered with their arms.Supporters probably owe their origin rather to several concurrent circum-stances, than to any one particular circumstance. The mere fact of a Knightcarrying his own armorial Shield, or his Esquire bearing it beside him, mightsuggest the general idea of some supporting figure in connection with a rep-resentation of that Shield. The act of carrying a Banner of Arms, in like man-ner, might suggest a representation of a "Supporter" for a Shield of Arms.To early Seals, however, Heraldry is in an especial degree indebted for thedevelopment of the idea of Supporters, and for bringing it into a definiteform. Again, the prevalent use of Badges in the fourteenth century, andin the fifteenth also, would necessarily exercise a powerful influence in thesame direction; and would lead Heralds to associate with Shields of Armscertain other figures which, while in themselves distinct and independent, were closely allied with certain Shields of Arms. The prototypes of true Sup-porters, indeed, as they appear on Seals, are Badges. In fact, it is often diffi-cult to determine whether specified figures on the Seals of a certain periodare heraldic supporters or merely representations of Badges.An Effigy represented upon a Seal, as in No. 405, the Seal of DEVORGUILLACRAWFORD, about A.D. 1290, from LAING'S Volume: or in Nos. 316, 317, would be even more than a suggestion of a Supporter. The same maybe said, when some figure, almost certainly a Badge, was Uncover the majestic history of the guardian figures that flank nobl Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. ON THE VARIATION OF ORGANIC BEINGS UNDERDOMESTICATION; AND ON THE PRINCIPLES OFSELECTIONThe most favourable conditions for variation seem to be when organic be-ings are bred for many generations under domestication{186}: one mayinfer this from the simple fact of the vast number of races and breeds ofalmost every plant and animal, which has long been domesticated. Undercertain conditions organic beings even during their individual lives becomeslightly altered from their usual form, size, or other characters: and manyof the peculiarities thus acquired are transmitted to their offspring. Thus inanimals, the size and vigour of body, fatness, period of maturity, habits ofbody or consensual movements, habits of mind and temper, are modified oracquired during the life of the individual{187}, and become inherited. Thereis reason to believe that when long exercise has given to certain muscles greatdevelopment, or disuse has lessened them, that such development is also in-herited. Food and climate will occasionally produce changes in the colourand texture of the external coverings of animals; and certain unknown con-3 CHARLES DARWINditions affect the horns of cattle in parts of Abyssinia; but whether these pe-culiarities, thus acquired during individual lives, have been inherited, I donot know. It appears certain that malconformation and lameness in horses, produced by too much work on hard roads, -that affections of the eyes inthis animal probably caused by bad ventilation, -that tendencies towardsmany diseases in man, such as gout, caused by the course of life and ulti-mately producing changes of structure, and that many other diseases pro-duced by unknown agencies, such as goitre, and the idiotcy resulting fromit, all become hereditary.{186} The cumulative effect of domestication is insisted on in the Origin, seee.g. Origin, Ed. i. p. 7, vi. p. 8.{187} This type of variation passes into what he describes as the direct effectof conditions. Since they are due to causes acting during the adult life of theorganism they might be called individual variations, but he uses this term forcongenital variations, e.g. the differences discoverable in plants raised fromseeds of the same pod (Origin, Ed. i. p. 45, vi. p. 53).It is very doubtful whether the flowers and leaf-buds, annually producedfrom the same bulb, root, or tree, can properly be considered as parts of thesame individual, though in some respects they certainly seem to be so. If theyare parts of an individual, plants also are subject to considerable changes dur-ing their individual lives. Most florist-flowers if neglected degenerate, thatis, they lose some of their characters; so common is this, that trueness is of-ten stated, as greatly enhancing the value of a variety{188}: tulips break theircolours only after some years' culture; some plants become double and oth-ers single, by neglect or care: these characters can be transmitted by cuttingsor grafts, and in some cases by true or seminal propagation. Occasionallya single bud on a plant assumes at once a new and widely different charac-ter: thus it is certain that nectarines have been produced on peach trees andmoss roses on provence roses; white currants on red currant bushes; flowersof a different colour from that of the stock, in Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Explore the profound mechanisms of biological change as this seminal work investigates how domestic breeding and env Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. FIRST VOYAGE TO SOUTH AFRICA-CAPE TOWN."Oh that mine adversary had written a book!"-JOB xxxi. 35.The above words, written by one of the greatest philosophers of olden time, have often impressed me, and I have frequently quoted them when askedwhy I did not write an account of the interesting travels and adventures Ihave had in my life. It has therefore required a great deal of courage to takeup my pen and record a few recollections of South Africa. I felt that, werethey ever to be written at all, it must be before the rapidly passing years di-minish the interest in that land, which in the past has been the object ofsuch engrossing attention; and that at the present time, when the impend-ing Federation of South Africa has at length crowned the hopes of those pa-triots who have laboured patiently and hopefully to bring about this greatresult, it might be appropriate to recall those days when Englishmen, whohad made South Africa their home, had much to contend with, even beforethe fierce struggle to keep "the flag flying" in the years of 1899-1902.During that period, which commenced after the disaster at Majuba Hill, "equal rights" were a golden dream which only the most optimistic ever3 LADY SARAH ISABELLA AUGUSTA WILSONhoped to see realized. From then onwards, as old colonists have so oftentold me, the Boers brought up the younger generation in the belief that the"Roinek"[1] was a coward, and in consequence their arrogance in the coun-try districts became wellnigh intolerable, while at the Cape the Bond partygrew so strong it bid fair to elbow out the English altogether. Now, while thecountry is still young, the fair prospect opens out of Briton and Boer livingin amity and peace together, and mutually supplying, in the government oftheir vast inheritance, such elements as are wanting in the character of each.My first visit to South Africa was a short one, and took place at the end of1895. During the foregoing summer everyone's attention had been directedto the Transvaal, and more especially towards the Rand, by reason of theunprecedented and, as it turned out, totally unwarranted rise in the gold-mining shares of that district; in this boom, people both at home and in Jo-hannesburg madly gambled, and large fortunes were quickly made by thosewho had foresight enough not to hold on too long. For already the polit-ical horizon was darkening, and the wrongs of the "Uitlanders," real andapparent as they were, became a parrot-cry, which waxed and waned, butnever died away, till the ultimatum of President Kruger, in October, 1899, brought matters to a climax.We sailed from Southampton in December, 1895, in the Tantallon Castle, then one of the most modern and up-to-date of the Castle liners. The shipwas crowded to its utmost capacity, and among the passengers, as I after-wards learned, were many deeply concerned in the plottingwhichwas knownto be going on at Johannesburg, either to extort concessions from PresidentKruger, or, failing this, to remove him altogether. I knew very little about allthis then, but before I had been many days on board it was not difficult todiscover that much mystery filled the air, and I was greatly excited at arriv-ing in South Africa in such stirring times. There is no such place for gettingto know people well as on a sea-voyage of eighteen days. Somehow the seaull Through intimate diary entries, a traveler recounts the turbulent era of gold rushes and politica Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE FAMILY 1. TAKING THE HOME IN RELIGIOUS TERMSThe ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, ir-reverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life aresigns of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes. Where thehome is only an opportunity for self-indulgence, it easily becomes a cheapboarding-house, a sleeping-shelf, an implement for social advantage. Whileit is true that general economic developments have effected marked changesin domestic economy, the happiness and efficiency of the family do not de-pend wholly on the parlor, the kitchen, or the clothes closet. Rather, every-thing depends on whether the home and family are considered in worthyand adequate terms.Homes are wrecked because families refuse to take home-living in religiousterms, in social terms of sacrifice and service. In such homes, organized andconducted to satisfy personal desires rather than to meet social responsibili-ties, these desires become ends rather than agencies and opportunities.3 HENRY FREDERICK COPEThey who marry for lust are divorced for further lust. Selfishness, even inits form of self-preservation, is an unstable foundation for a home. It coststoo much to maintain a home if you measure it by the personal advantages ofparents. What hope is there for useful and happy family life if the newlywed-ded youth have both been educated in selfishness, habituated to frivolouspleasures, and guided by ideals of success in terms of garish display? Yetwhat definite program for any other training does society provide? Do theschools and colleges, Sunday schools and churches teach youth a better way?How else shall they be trained to take the home and family in terms that willmake for happiness and usefulness? It is high time to take seriously the taskof educating people to religious efficiency in the home. 2. THE RELIGIOUS MOTIVEThe family needs a religious motive. More potent for happiness than coursesin domestic economy will be training in sufficient domestic motives. It willtake much more than modern conveniences, bigger apartments, or even bet-ter kitchens to make the new home. Essentially the problem is not one ofmechanics but of persons. What we call the home problem is more truly afamily problem. It centers in persons; the solution awaits a race with newideals, educated to live as more than dust, for more than dirt, for personalityrather than for possessions. We need young peoplewho establish homes, notsimply because they feel miserable when separated, nor because one needsa place in which to board and the other needs a boarder, but because thelargest duty and joy of life is to enrich the world with other lives and to givethemselves in high love to making those other lives of the greatest possibleworth to the world.The family must come to a recognition of social obligations. We all hope forthe coming ideal day. Everywhere men and women are answering to higherideals of life. But the new day waits for a new race. Modern emphasis on thechild is a part of present reaction from materialism. New social ideals arepersonal. We seek a better world for the sake of a higher race. The emphasison child-welfare has a social rather than a sentimental basis. The family is Moving beyond mere materialism and domestic convenience, this work argues that true domestic stability is found only when families embrace a spirit of selfless service and higher spiritual Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. SUPPORTERS"Standing by the Shield In silence." -IDYLLS OF THE KING.A SUPPORTER is a figure, sometimes of an angel, frequently of a humanbeing, but more generally of some animal, bird, or imaginary creature, soplaced in connection with a Shield of Arms as to appear to be protecting andsupporting it. In English Heraldry a single Supporter is of comparativelyrare occurrence, but a number of examples are to be found in the Heraldry ofScotland. In early examples, when two Supporters appear, they are in mostcases alike: but, more recently (except in the Heraldry of France), the twofigures are generally quite distinct the one from the other, the earlier usage ofhaving the two Supporters alike being less frequent. The modern prevailingpractice in England is happily exemplified in the well-known instance of thepresent Royal Supporters, the Lion and the Unicorn.Supporters are considered to have been introduced into theHeraldry of Eng-land during the reign of EDWARD III.; but they may with greater accuracybe assigned to the middle of the fifteenth century, than to the second halfof the fourteenth. As armorial insignia of a very high rank, Supporters are3 CHARLES BOUTELLgranted in England only by the express command of the Sovereign, except toPeers and Knights Grand Cross and Knights Grand Commanders. In Scot-land, where they occur more frequently than in the Heraldry of the Southof the Tweed, the "Lord Lyon" has power to grant Supporters. Originallyby the Scottish Heralds these accessories of Shields were entitled "Bearers."Supporters are now granted, on payment of fees, to all Peers of the Realm todescend to the holders of a specified Peerage, and to Knights of the Garter, Thistle, and St. Patrick, and to Knights Grand Cross and Knights GrandCommanders of all other orders of knighthood to be borne for life. MostNova Scotia Baronets and Chiefs of Scottish Clans have supporters regis-tered with their arms.Supporters probably owe their origin rather to several concurrent circum-stances, than to any one particular circumstance. The mere fact of a Knightcarrying his own armorial Shield, or his Esquire bearing it beside him, mightsuggest the general idea of some supporting figure in connection with a rep-resentation of that Shield. The act of carrying a Banner of Arms, in like man-ner, might suggest a representation of a "Supporter" for a Shield of Arms.To early Seals, however, Heraldry is in an especial degree indebted for thedevelopment of the idea of Supporters, and for bringing it into a definiteform. Again, the prevalent use of Badges in the fourteenth century, andin the fifteenth also, would necessarily exercise a powerful influence in thesame direction; and would lead Heralds to associate with Shields of Armscertain other figures which, while in themselves distinct and independent, were closely allied with certain Shields of Arms. The prototypes of true Sup-porters, indeed, as they appear on Seals, are Badges. In fact, it is often diffi-cult to determine whether specified figures on the Seals of a certain periodare heraldic supporters or merely representations of Badges.An Effigy represented upon a Seal, as in No. 405, the Seal of DEVORGUILLACRAWFORD, about A.D. 1290, from LAING'S Volume: or in Nos. 316, 317, would be even more than a suggestion of a Supporter. The same maybe said, when some figure, almost certainly a Badge, was Uncover the majestic history of the guardian figures th Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. ON THE VARIATION OF ORGANIC BEINGS UNDERDOMESTICATION; AND ON THE PRINCIPLES OFSELECTIONThe most favourable conditions for variation seem to be when organic be-ings are bred for many generations under domestication{186}: one mayinfer this from the simple fact of the vast number of races and breeds ofalmost every plant and animal, which has long been domesticated. Undercertain conditions organic beings even during their individual lives becomeslightly altered from their usual form, size, or other characters: and manyof the peculiarities thus acquired are transmitted to their offspring. Thus inanimals, the size and vigour of body, fatness, period of maturity, habits ofbody or consensual movements, habits of mind and temper, are modified oracquired during the life of the individual{187}, and become inherited. Thereis reason to believe that when long exercise has given to certain muscles greatdevelopment, or disuse has lessened them, that such development is also in-herited. Food and climate will occasionally produce changes in the colourand texture of the external coverings of animals; and certain unknown con-3 CHARLES DARWINditions affect the horns of cattle in parts of Abyssinia; but whether these pe-culiarities, thus acquired during individual lives, have been inherited, I donot know. It appears certain that malconformation and lameness in horses, produced by too much work on hard roads, -that affections of the eyes inthis animal probably caused by bad ventilation, -that tendencies towardsmany diseases in man, such as gout, caused by the course of life and ulti-mately producing changes of structure, and that many other diseases pro-duced by unknown agencies, such as goitre, and the idiotcy resulting fromit, all become hereditary.{186} The cumulative effect of domestication is insisted on in the Origin, seee.g. Origin, Ed. i. p. 7, vi. p. 8.{187} This type of variation passes into what he describes as the direct effectof conditions. Since they are due to causes acting during the adult life of theorganism they might be called individual variations, but he uses this term forcongenital variations, e.g. the differences discoverable in plants raised fromseeds of the same pod (Origin, Ed. i. p. 45, vi. p. 53).It is very doubtful whether the flowers and leaf-buds, annually producedfrom the same bulb, root, or tree, can properly be considered as parts of thesame individual, though in some respects they certainly seem to be so. If theyare parts of an individual, plants also are subject to considerable changes dur-ing their individual lives. Most florist-flowers if neglected degenerate, thatis, they lose some of their characters; so common is this, that trueness is of-ten stated, as greatly enhancing the value of a variety{188}: tulips break theircolours only after some years' culture; some plants become double and oth-ers single, by neglect or care: these characters can be transmitted by cuttingsor grafts, and in some cases by true or seminal propagation. Occasionallya single bud on a plant assumes at once a new and widely different charac-ter: thus it is certain that nectarines have been produced on peach trees andmoss roses on provence roses; white currants on red currant bushes; flowersof a different colour from that of the stock, in Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Explore the profound mechanisms of biological change as this seminal work investigates how domestic bre Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. FIRST VOYAGE TO SOUTH AFRICA-CAPE TOWN."Oh that mine adversary had written a book!"-JOB xxxi. 35.The above words, written by one of the greatest philosophers of olden time, have often impressed me, and I have frequently quoted them when askedwhy I did not write an account of the interesting travels and adventures Ihave had in my life. It has therefore required a great deal of courage to takeup my pen and record a few recollections of South Africa. I felt that, werethey ever to be written at all, it must be before the rapidly passing years di-minish the interest in that land, which in the past has been the object ofsuch engrossing attention; and that at the present time, when the impend-ing Federation of South Africa has at length crowned the hopes of those pa-triots who have laboured patiently and hopefully to bring about this greatresult, it might be appropriate to recall those days when Englishmen, whohad made South Africa their home, had much to contend with, even beforethe fierce struggle to keep "the flag flying" in the years of 1899-1902.During that period, which commenced after the disaster at Majuba Hill, "equal rights" were a golden dream which only the most optimistic ever3 LADY SARAH ISABELLA AUGUSTA WILSONhoped to see realized. From then onwards, as old colonists have so oftentold me, the Boers brought up the younger generation in the belief that the"Roinek"[1] was a coward, and in consequence their arrogance in the coun-try districts became wellnigh intolerable, while at the Cape the Bond partygrew so strong it bid fair to elbow out the English altogether. Now, while thecountry is still young, the fair prospect opens out of Briton and Boer livingin amity and peace together, and mutually supplying, in the government oftheir vast inheritance, such elements as are wanting in the character of each.My first visit to South Africa was a short one, and took place at the end of1895. During the foregoing summer everyone's attention had been directedto the Transvaal, and more especially towards the Rand, by reason of theunprecedented and, as it turned out, totally unwarranted rise in the gold-mining shares of that district; in this boom, people both at home and in Jo-hannesburg madly gambled, and large fortunes were quickly made by thosewho had foresight enough not to hold on too long. For already the polit-ical horizon was darkening, and the wrongs of the "Uitlanders," real andapparent as they were, became a parrot-cry, which waxed and waned, butnever died away, till the ultimatum of President Kruger, in October, 1899, brought matters to a climax.We sailed from Southampton in December, 1895, in the Tantallon Castle, then one of the most modern and up-to-date of the Castle liners. The shipwas crowded to its utmost capacity, and among the passengers, as I after-wards learned, were many deeply concerned in the plottingwhichwas knownto be going on at Johannesburg, either to extort concessions from PresidentKruger, or, failing this, to remove him altogether. I knew very little about allthis then, but before I had been many days on board it was not difficult todiscover that much mystery filled the air, and I was greatly excited at arriv-ing in South Africa in such stirring times. There is no such place for gettingto know people well as on a sea-voyage of eighteen days. Somehow the seaull Through intimate diary entries, a traveler recounts the turbulent era of gold rushes Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. SUPPORTERS"Standing by the Shield In silence." -IDYLLS OF THE KING.A SUPPORTER is a figure, sometimes of an angel, frequently of a humanbeing, but more generally of some animal, bird, or imaginary creature, soplaced in connection with a Shield of Arms as to appear to be protecting andsupporting it. In English Heraldry a single Supporter is of comparativelyrare occurrence, but a number of examples are to be found in the Heraldry ofScotland. In early examples, when two Supporters appear, they are in mostcases alike: but, more recently (except in the Heraldry of France), the twofigures are generally quite distinct the one from the other, the earlier usage ofhaving the two Supporters alike being less frequent. The modern prevailingpractice in England is happily exemplified in the well-known instance of thepresent Royal Supporters, the Lion and the Unicorn.Supporters are considered to have been introduced into theHeraldry of Eng-land during the reign of EDWARD III.; but they may with greater accuracybe assigned to the middle of the fifteenth century, than to the second halfof the fourteenth. As armorial insignia of a very high rank, Supporters are3 CHARLES BOUTELLgranted in England only by the express command of the Sovereign, except toPeers and Knights Grand Cross and Knights Grand Commanders. In Scot-land, where they occur more frequently than in the Heraldry of the Southof the Tweed, the "Lord Lyon" has power to grant Supporters. Originallyby the Scottish Heralds these accessories of Shields were entitled "Bearers."Supporters are now granted, on payment of fees, to all Peers of the Realm todescend to the holders of a specified Peerage, and to Knights of the Garter, Thistle, and St. Patrick, and to Knights Grand Cross and Knights GrandCommanders of all other orders of knighthood to be borne for life. MostNova Scotia Baronets and Chiefs of Scottish Clans have supporters regis-tered with their arms.Supporters probably owe their origin rather to several concurrent circum-stances, than to any one particular circumstance. The mere fact of a Knightcarrying his own armorial Shield, or his Esquire bearing it beside him, mightsuggest the general idea of some supporting figure in connection with a rep-resentation of that Shield. The act of carrying a Banner of Arms, in like man-ner, might suggest a representation of a "Supporter" for a Shield of Arms.To early Seals, however, Heraldry is in an especial degree indebted for thedevelopment of the idea of Supporters, and for bringing it into a definiteform. Again, the prevalent use of Badges in the fourteenth century, andin the fifteenth also, would necessarily exercise a powerful influence in thesame direction; and would lead Heralds to associate with Shields of Armscertain other figures which, while in themselves distinct and independent, were closely allied with certain Shields of Arms. The prototypes of true Sup-porters, indeed, as they appear on Seals, are Badges. In fact, it is often diffi-cult to determine whether specified figures on the Seals of a certain periodare heraldic supporters or merely representations of Badges.An Effigy represented upon a Seal, as in No. 405, the Seal of DEVORGUILLACRAWFORD, about A.D. 1290, from LAING'S Volume: or in Nos. 316, 317, would be even more than a suggestion of a Supporter. The same maybe said, when some figure, almost certainly a Badge, was Uncover the majestic history of the guardian figures th Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. ON THE VARIATION OF ORGANIC BEINGS UNDERDOMESTICATION; AND ON THE PRINCIPLES OFSELECTIONThe most favourable conditions for variation seem to be when organic be-ings are bred for many generations under domestication{186}: one mayinfer this from the simple fact of the vast number of races and breeds ofalmost every plant and animal, which has long been domesticated. Undercertain conditions organic beings even during their individual lives becomeslightly altered from their usual form, size, or other characters: and manyof the peculiarities thus acquired are transmitted to their offspring. Thus inanimals, the size and vigour of body, fatness, period of maturity, habits ofbody or consensual movements, habits of mind and temper, are modified oracquired during the life of the individual{187}, and become inherited. Thereis reason to believe that when long exercise has given to certain muscles greatdevelopment, or disuse has lessened them, that such development is also in-herited. Food and climate will occasionally produce changes in the colourand texture of the external coverings of animals; and certain unknown con-3 CHARLES DARWINditions affect the horns of cattle in parts of Abyssinia; but whether these pe-culiarities, thus acquired during individual lives, have been inherited, I donot know. It appears certain that malconformation and lameness in horses, produced by too much work on hard roads, -that affections of the eyes inthis animal probably caused by bad ventilation, -that tendencies towardsmany diseases in man, such as gout, caused by the course of life and ulti-mately producing changes of structure, and that many other diseases pro-duced by unknown agencies, such as goitre, and the idiotcy resulting fromit, all become hereditary.{186} The cumulative effect of domestication is insisted on in the Origin, seee.g. Origin, Ed. i. p. 7, vi. p. 8.{187} This type of variation passes into what he describes as the direct effectof conditions. Since they are due to causes acting during the adult life of theorganism they might be called individual variations, but he uses this term forcongenital variations, e.g. the differences discoverable in plants raised fromseeds of the same pod (Origin, Ed. i. p. 45, vi. p. 53).It is very doubtful whether the flowers and leaf-buds, annually producedfrom the same bulb, root, or tree, can properly be considered as parts of thesame individual, though in some respects they certainly seem to be so. If theyare parts of an individual, plants also are subject to considerable changes dur-ing their individual lives. Most florist-flowers if neglected degenerate, thatis, they lose some of their characters; so common is this, that trueness is of-ten stated, as greatly enhancing the value of a variety{188}: tulips break theircolours only after some years' culture; some plants become double and oth-ers single, by neglect or care: these characters can be transmitted by cuttingsor grafts, and in some cases by true or seminal propagation. Occasionallya single bud on a plant assumes at once a new and widely different charac-ter: thus it is certain that nectarines have been produced on peach trees andmoss roses on provence roses; white currants on red currant bushes; flowersof a different colour from that of the stock, in Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Explore the profound mechanisms of biological change as this seminal work investigates how domestic bre Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. FIRST VOYAGE TO SOUTH AFRICA-CAPE TOWN."Oh that mine adversary had written a book!"-JOB xxxi. 35.The above words, written by one of the greatest philosophers of olden time, have often impressed me, and I have frequently quoted them when askedwhy I did not write an account of the interesting travels and adventures Ihave had in my life. It has therefore required a great deal of courage to takeup my pen and record a few recollections of South Africa. I felt that, werethey ever to be written at all, it must be before the rapidly passing years di-minish the interest in that land, which in the past has been the object ofsuch engrossing attention; and that at the present time, when the impend-ing Federation of South Africa has at length crowned the hopes of those pa-triots who have laboured patiently and hopefully to bring about this greatresult, it might be appropriate to recall those days when Englishmen, whohad made South Africa their home, had much to contend with, even beforethe fierce struggle to keep "the flag flying" in the years of 1899-1902.During that period, which commenced after the disaster at Majuba Hill, "equal rights" were a golden dream which only the most optimistic ever3 LADY SARAH ISABELLA AUGUSTA WILSONhoped to see realized. From then onwards, as old colonists have so oftentold me, the Boers brought up the younger generation in the belief that the"Roinek"[1] was a coward, and in consequence their arrogance in the coun-try districts became wellnigh intolerable, while at the Cape the Bond partygrew so strong it bid fair to elbow out the English altogether. Now, while thecountry is still young, the fair prospect opens out of Briton and Boer livingin amity and peace together, and mutually supplying, in the government oftheir vast inheritance, such elements as are wanting in the character of each.My first visit to South Africa was a short one, and took place at the end of1895. During the foregoing summer everyone's attention had been directedto the Transvaal, and more especially towards the Rand, by reason of theunprecedented and, as it turned out, totally unwarranted rise in the gold-mining shares of that district; in this boom, people both at home and in Jo-hannesburg madly gambled, and large fortunes were quickly made by thosewho had foresight enough not to hold on too long. For already the polit-ical horizon was darkening, and the wrongs of the "Uitlanders," real andapparent as they were, became a parrot-cry, which waxed and waned, butnever died away, till the ultimatum of President Kruger, in October, 1899, brought matters to a climax.We sailed from Southampton in December, 1895, in the Tantallon Castle, then one of the most modern and up-to-date of the Castle liners. The shipwas crowded to its utmost capacity, and among the passengers, as I after-wards learned, were many deeply concerned in the plottingwhichwas knownto be going on at Johannesburg, either to extort concessions from PresidentKruger, or, failing this, to remove him altogether. I knew very little about allthis then, but before I had been many days on board it was not difficult todiscover that much mystery filled the air, and I was greatly excited at arriv-ing in South Africa in such stirring times. There is no such place for gettingto know people well as on a sea-voyage of eighteen days. Somehow the seaull Through intimate diary entries, a traveler recounts the turbulent era of gold rushes Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE FAMILY 1. TAKING THE HOME IN RELIGIOUS TERMSThe ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, ir-reverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life aresigns of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes. Where thehome is only an opportunity for self-indulgence, it easily becomes a cheapboarding-house, a sleeping-shelf, an implement for social advantage. Whileit is true that general economic developments have effected marked changesin domestic economy, the happiness and efficiency of the family do not de-pend wholly on the parlor, the kitchen, or the clothes closet. Rather, every-thing depends on whether the home and family are considered in worthyand adequate terms.Homes are wrecked because families refuse to take home-living in religiousterms, in social terms of sacrifice and service. In such homes, organized andconducted to satisfy personal desires rather than to meet social responsibili-ties, these desires become ends rather than agencies and opportunities.3 HENRY FREDERICK COPEThey who marry for lust are divorced for further lust. Selfishness, even inits form of self-preservation, is an unstable foundation for a home. It coststoo much to maintain a home if you measure it by the personal advantages ofparents. What hope is there for useful and happy family life if the newlywed-ded youth have both been educated in selfishness, habituated to frivolouspleasures, and guided by ideals of success in terms of garish display? Yetwhat definite program for any other training does society provide? Do theschools and colleges, Sunday schools and churches teach youth a better way?How else shall they be trained to take the home and family in terms that willmake for happiness and usefulness? It is high time to take seriously the taskof educating people to religious efficiency in the home. 2. THE RELIGIOUS MOTIVEThe family needs a religious motive. More potent for happiness than coursesin domestic economy will be training in sufficient domestic motives. It willtake much more than modern conveniences, bigger apartments, or even bet-ter kitchens to make the new home. Essentially the problem is not one ofmechanics but of persons. What we call the home problem is more truly afamily problem. It centers in persons; the solution awaits a race with newideals, educated to live as more than dust, for more than dirt, for personalityrather than for possessions. We need young peoplewho establish homes, notsimply because they feel miserable when separated, nor because one needsa place in which to board and the other needs a boarder, but because thelargest duty and joy of life is to enrich the world with other lives and to givethemselves in high love to making those other lives of the greatest possibleworth to the world.The family must come to a recognition of social obligations. We all hope forthe coming ideal day. Everywhere men and women are answering to higherideals of life. But the new day waits for a new race. Modern emphasis on thechild is a part of present reaction from materialism. New social ideals arepersonal. We seek a better world for the sake of a higher race. The emphasison child-welfare has a social rather than a sentimental basis. The family is Moving beyond mere materialism and domestic convenience, this work argues that true domestic stability is found only when families embrace a spirit of selfless service and high Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. AN INTERPRETATION OF THE FAMILY 1. TAKING THE HOME IN RELIGIOUS TERMSThe ills of the modern home are symptomatic. Divorce, childless families, ir-reverent children, and the decadence of the old type of separate home life aresigns of forgotten ideals, lost motives, and insufficient purposes. Where thehome is only an opportunity for self-indulgence, it easily becomes a cheapboarding-house, a sleeping-shelf, an implement for social advantage. Whileit is true that general economic developments have effected marked changesin domestic economy, the happiness and efficiency of the family do not de-pend wholly on the parlor, the kitchen, or the clothes closet. Rather, every-thing depends on whether the home and family are considered in worthyand adequate terms.Homes are wrecked because families refuse to take home-living in religiousterms, in social terms of sacrifice and service. In such homes, organized andconducted to satisfy personal desires rather than to meet social responsibili-ties, these desires become ends rather than agencies and opportunities.3 HENRY FREDERICK COPEThey who marry for lust are divorced for further lust. Selfishness, even inits form of self-preservation, is an unstable foundation for a home. It coststoo much to maintain a home if you measure it by the personal advantages ofparents. What hope is there for useful and happy family life if the newlywed-ded youth have both been educated in selfishness, habituated to frivolouspleasures, and guided by ideals of success in terms of garish display? Yetwhat definite program for any other training does society provide? Do theschools and colleges, Sunday schools and churches teach youth a better way?How else shall they be trained to take the home and family in terms that willmake for happiness and usefulness? It is high time to take seriously the taskof educating people to religious efficiency in the home. 2. THE RELIGIOUS MOTIVEThe family needs a religious motive. More potent for happiness than coursesin domestic economy will be training in sufficient domestic motives. It willtake much more than modern conveniences, bigger apartments, or even bet-ter kitchens to make the new home. Essentially the problem is not one ofmechanics but of persons. What we call the home problem is more truly afamily problem. It centers in persons; the solution awaits a race with newideals, educated to live as more than dust, for more than dirt, for personalityrather than for possessions. We need young peoplewho establish homes, notsimply because they feel miserable when separated, nor because one needsa place in which to board and the other needs a boarder, but because thelargest duty and joy of life is to enrich the world with other lives and to givethemselves in high love to making those other lives of the greatest possibleworth to the world.The family must come to a recognition of social obligations. We all hope forthe coming ideal day. Everywhere men and women are answering to higherideals of life. But the new day waits for a new race. Modern emphasis on thechild is a part of present reaction from materialism. New social ideals arepersonal. We seek a better world for the sake of a higher race. The emphasison child-welfare has a social rather than a sentimental basis. The family is Moving beyond mere materialism and domestic convenience, this work argues that true domestic stability is found only when families embrace a spirit of selfless service and high Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. EARLY RECOLLECTIONSHaving set myself to write a personal record of psychic experiences, I must"begin at the beginning," as the children say.When only nine years old I lost my father-the Rev. John Ellison Bates ofChrist Church, Dover-and my earliest childish experience of anything su-pernormal was connected with him. He had been an invalid all my shortlife, and I was quite accustomed to spending days at a time without see-ing him. His last illness, which lasted about a fortnight, had therefore nospecial significance for me, and my nurse, elder brother, and godmother, who were the only three people in the house at the time, gave strict ordersthat none of the servants should give me a hint of his being dangerously ill.These instructions were carefully carried out, and yet I dreamed three nightsrunning-the three nights preceding his decease-that he was dead. I was en-tirely devoted to my father, who had been father and mother to me in one, and these dreams no doubt broke the terrible shock of his death to me. Howwell I remember, that cold, dreary February morning, being hastily dressedby candle-light by strange hands, and then my dear old nurse (who had been3 E. KATHERINE (EMILY KATHERINE) BATESby his bedside all night) coming in and telling me the sad news with tearsstreaming down her cheeks. It seemed no news at the moment; and yet Ihad spoken of my dreams to no one, "for fear they should come true," hav-ing some pathetic, childish notion that silence on my part might avert thecatastrophe. In all his previous and numerous illnesses I had never dreamtthat any special one was fatal.During the next few years of school life my psychic faculty remained abso-lutely in abeyance. In a fashionable school, surrounded by chattering com-panions and the usual paraphernalia of school work, classes, and masters, etc., I can, however, recall many a time when suddenly everything aroundme became unreal and I alone seemed to have any true existence; and eventhat was for the time merged in a rather unpleasant dream, from which Ihoped soon to wake up. This sensation was quite distinct from the one-alsowell known to me in those days and later-of having "done all this before,"and knowing just what somebody was about to say.Probably both these sensations are common to most young people. Itwouldbe interesting to note which of the two is the more universal.I pass on now to the timewhen Iwas about eighteen years old, and a constantvisitor, for weeks and months at a time, in the house of my godfather, thearchdeacon of a northern diocese. His grandson, then a young student atOxford, of about my own age, must have been what we should now calla very good sensitive. It was with him that I sat at my first "table," moreas a matter of amusement than anything else, and certainly young MortonFreer treated the "spirits" in the most cavalier fashion. They did not seemto resent this, and he could do pretty much what he liked with them. Thismay be a good opportunity for explaining that when I speak in this narrativeof "spirits" I do so to save constant periphrasis, and am quite consciously"begging the question" very often, as a matter of verbal convenience.In those days I don't think we troubled ourselves much about A personal chronicle tracing the awakening of supernatural intuition, from prophetic childhood dreams to the mysterious sensations of a life touched by the veil between worlds. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…