- skin and had nestled up close to it as contented
as could be, and soon they were sound asleep. (Text.)
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MOTION, CHANGE BY
The effect of rotation in changing the shape
of plastic bodies can readily be shown in
simple experiments. A light metal ring is
mounted on a vertical axis about which it
can be rotated with great rapidity. When
the ring is at rest it is circular in shape, but
when it is rotated it becomes flattened along
the axis, bulging out at what we may call
the equator. The faster the ring is rotated
the greater and greater becomes its departure
from circular shape.—Charles Lane
Poor, "The Solar System."
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Motion Desired—See Home, Choice of a.
MOTION WITHOUT PROGRESS
There's one kind of an engine that's always
a nuisance to me, and that's these little
switching-engines down by the station. They
run up and down side-tracks, shoving cars;
and that's all they do from week to week
and from month to month. They're always
getting in the way of wagons and scaring
horses. But when I see a grand locomotive
start to the seacoast cities, there is music in
her whistle. There is something which says
she's determined to land her passengers at
their destination on time. There are a great
many of us Christians just switching backward
and forward on side-tracks.—"Famous
Stories of Sam P. Jones."
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Motive, A Pure—See Pride in One's Task.
MOTIVE, MERCENARY
Portrait-painting was the deliberate choice
of Sir Godfrey Kneller because it was
profitable. It was said of him: "Where he
offered one picture to fame, he sacrificed
twenty to lucre." He said of himself:
"Painters of history make the dead live, and
do not begin to live themselves till they are
dead; I paint the living and they enable me
to live." And in this he succeeded, for he
painted ten sovereigns, and among other
celebrities, Marlborough, Newton and Dryden.
He was rewarded, too, by poems written
in his honor by Pope, Addison, Steele
and others. King William got him to paint
the beauties of Hampton Court. (Text.)
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Mountain, The—See Viewpoint, The.
Mourning—See Bible Customs To-day.
Movement—See Slowness.
MOVEMENT UNCEASING
There is nothing absolutely stable in the
universe. From the ultimate eon to the
largest world in space everything is moving.
If we believe in progress we shall say that
everything is moving on. If anything should
actually stop it would be instantly destroyed.
If a man could go to the top of a high tower,
or a mountain, and there could come to absolute
rest, the atmosphere of our earth,
light as it seems, but traveling about nineteen
miles in a second, would by its friction
probably reduce him in a second to a patch
of flame and dissipate him as a fiery gas in
every direction.
So, if in our life progress we should
try to stop and live in a dead past, or
turn back to old conditions, the world's
rush of progress would leave us behind,
or its frictions would wear our spirits
out.
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Moving Pictures in Churches—See Churches and the Crowd.
Much in Little—See Miniature Work;
Economy.
Much in Little Space—See Useless
Labor.
Multiformity of Life—See Individuality.
MULTIPLE CONSCIOUSNESS
Newspaper readers have been furnished
with the details of the case of the Rev. Ansel
Bourne, which may be briefly recalled. Some
years ago a stranger arrived in Norristown,
Pa., rented a store, stocked it, and began
business in a quiet, business-like way which
attracted no attention and aroused no suspicion
as to any mental difficulty. Some two
months later one of his neighbors was
startled by a call from the newcomer, who,
in a bewildered way, demanded to know
where he was, and after a time explained
that he was a Rhode Island clergyman, could
not account for his presence in Norristown,
knew nothing of any of his actions while
there, and could only recall that he had
drawn some money from a bank in his
native place two months before, after which
his life was a blank. And yet, during the
entire period his actions had been apparently
