Race Prejudice Overcome—See Civics.
Race-track, The—See Gambling.
RACE TRAITS
All the white race have teeth vertical, the
jaw short; and the manner in which the
teeth fit one upon the other is perpendicularly,
so that when we close the mouth we bring
the lower teeth against the upper teeth in
such a juxtaposition that the two sets stand
vertical, one above the other. The races of
men which have that kind of dentition are
called orthognate; that is, straight-jawed
races; while there are other races—and,
among others, all the inhabitants of the
South Sea Islands and all the inhabitants of
Africa south of the Atlas—that have their
front teeth inclined, so that the upper teeth
and the lower teeth, when brought against
one another, form an angle and the mouth
is more prominent; these men are called
prognate. And that difference is a constant
one. All the races of men with prognate
jaws have also thicker and more prominent
lips. They have also flat noses, which I
have already described, with broad partitions
between the nostrils, and the nostrils
opening sideways.—Prof. Louis Agassiz.
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RADIANCE, REFLECTED
The human soul may see God as veiled in the incarnation, tho we are told that none can look on Him (in His full glory) and live:
Lighting by "glow," or by the reflection
of rays from a dull white surface, is becoming
more and more common. According
to the writer of an article in The American Magazine, this was first done on a large
scale at the Chicago Exposition in 1893,
where it was adopted by Luther Stieringer.
The cafe of the Adams House in Boston is
lighted by a domed ceiling that glows gently
and evenly with the reflected light of hundreds
of invisible incandescent bulbs hidden
around its base. In the great blue dome
of the great pillared reading-room of Columbia
University Library—the noblest educational
building in the country—hangs what
is locally known as "the mothball," a huge
globe of ground glass. It is perhaps a hundred
feet above the floor, yet at night, when
four calcium lights are turned on it, its
subdued, reflected radiance fills the whole
hall.
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RADIATION
God is eternally radiating His life into the universe as the sun from its glowing center rays forth heat:
The most recent estimates place the effective
temperature of the sun's radiating surface
at about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
This vast globe of gases and vapors is radiating heat into space, is cooling off. The intensely heated particles of the interior rise to the surface, give off their heat, and sink back again, just as do the bubbles of steam in a kettle of boiling water. This circulation from within outward takes place over the whole of the sun and, as a rule, it proceeds steadily and quietly, without any marked disturbance.—Charles Lane Poor, "The Solar System."
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RANK, OBSEQUIOUSNESS TO
"In Europe, and especially in France, people
have the greatest regard for any one who
has received a medal or other decoration of
honor," said Dr. Helms, of Buffalo, in the
course of a sermon on "France and the
French." And to prove this he related a
little anecdote. "A friend of mine," said Dr
Helms, "visiting a popular summer resort in
southern France, became annoyed at the manner
in which he was neglected in the dining-room.
Men who came in long after he did
would be served, while he sat unnoticed.
Finally he became curious to know the reason
for this, and slipping a coin into the
hand of a friendly-looking waiter, he asked
him why it was.
"'Because,' replied the waiter, 'Mr. So-and-So belongs to the Legion of Honor, and Mr. Blank has received the Order of St. Michael, and Mr. Smith and Mr. Jones and all the others have some decoration.'
"My friend was equal to the occasion," added Mr. Helms. "In his trunk up-stairs was the badge he had worn at the Republican convention which nominated President Taft, and he wore it prominently displaced on his coat lapel when he came down to dine again. Thereafter he had no occasion to complain about the service and nothing in the dining-room was too good for him."—Buffalo Evening News.
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