Evaluating the Ozone Control Programs in the Eastern United States: Focus on the Nox Budget Trading Program, 2004

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...she was studying; and thus through the subtle but imperishable links of association of ideas, chained them in her mind. The extensive library at Le Bocage, and the valuable collection of books at the parsonage, challenged research, and, with a boundless ambition, equalled only by her patient, persevering application, Edna devoted herself to the acquisition of knowledge, and astonished and delighted her teacher by the rapidity of her progress and the vigor and originality of her restless intellect. The noble catholicity of spirit that distinguished Mr. Hammond's character encouraged her to discuss freely the ethical and psychological problems that arrested her attention as she grew older, and facilitated her appreciation and acceptance of the great fact, that all bigotry springs from narrow minds and partial knowledge. He taught her that truth, scorning monopolies and deriding patents, lends some valuable element to almost every human system; that ignorance, superstition, and intolerance are the red-handed Huns that ravage society, immolating the pioneers of progress upon the shrine of prejudice--fettering science--blindly bent on divorcing natural and revealed truth, which God hath joined together in holy and eternal wedlock; and while they battle d I'outrance with every innovation, lock the wheels of human advancement, turning a deaf ear to the thrilling cry: Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns. If Carlyle be correct in his declaration that Truly a thinking man is the worst enemy the prince of darkness can have, and even-time such a one announces himself there runs a shudder through the nether empire, where new emissaries are trained with new...