The decision to include wild cereals in the collection may have been initially a random act of gathering, but once that decision had been made it triggered a runaway system of positive feedback in which the entire culture was transformed.

During the inspiration, while the mephitic acid is in a state of chemical union with phlogiston, it pastes through the lime-water without affecting its transparency; but no sooner is the air decompounded ia the lungs, and the phlogiston absorbed, than the fixed air is set at liberty, and manifests itself by the turbid precipitation of lime.

I can employ no man's justification herein more properly than yours, to whom I proposed this difficulty before coming out of England, and received your leave to converse freely but not to cabalize with them .

The new appliances of the game sold under the rather too learned name of ‘sphairistikè’ have been lightened without, like their ancient representatives, being increased in size.