And the winter of 1879
has asserted its statistical rights, and proved true to the fatal
influence of the figure 9. The meteorologists of other countries are
invited to follow suit, and make their investigations likewise, for the
subject is certainly most fascinating as well as most instructive.
Enough has been shown, however, to prove that neither the ideas of
Pythagoras on the mysterious influence of numbers, nor the theories of
the ancient world-religions and philosophies are as shallow and
meaningless as some too forward thinkers would have had the world to
believe.
--H.P.B.
SCIENTIFIC
Odorigen and Jiva
Professor Yaeger of Stuttgart has made a very interesting study of the
sense of smell. He starts from the fact well known in medical
jurisprudence, that the blood of an animal when treated by sulphuric, or
indeed by any other decomposing acid, smells like the animal itself to
which it belongs. This holds good even after the blood has been long
dried.
Let us state before all what is to be understood by the smell of a
certain animal.
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