The Monist, Vol. 16 A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Philosophy of Science; January, 1906 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Monist, Vol. 16: A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Philosophy of Science; January, 1906 Hemistry teaches that all earthly matter is com posed of some seventy so-called elements. The exact number does not concern us here; it will prob ably increase with the further improvement of our meth ods of observation. But the fact which claims our atten tion is that the apparently endless variety of all material phenomena, whether of organic or inorganic nature, are built up from so small a number of different substances - or rather that the number should be limited at all. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.