Volume 1

Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee.

Date:
1912-1913
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Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Credit: Popular science / edited by Arthur Mee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HARMSWORTH POPULAR SCIENCE PAGE THE DOMINANT PEOPLES The Passing of the Pure Race, and the Blending of Groups into Great and Dominant Peoples 559 MAN MADE FOR THE UNIVERSE The Human Instrument by which the Mind of Man Works Out Its Creative Purpose in the World 689 GROUP 7—HEALTH THE DAY OF A HEALTHY MAN The Desperate Battle Between Health and Disease that Goes 0:i in Your Body Without Ceasing 67 WISDOM AND FOLLY ABOUT HEALTH Every Man His Own Doctor—Limited ; and Every Doctor the Minister to a Mind Diseased 191 BREATHING LIFE AND DEATH The Truth and Some Illusions about Fresh Air and the Life of the Open 315 A CEASELESS FLOW OF AIR The Natural Enemy of Ill-Health which is Within Reach of Every Home in the World 115 A GOLDEN RULE OF HEALTH Why We Must Breathe Through the Nose, and Why We Need not be Afraid of a Good Draught 571 THE LAW OF THE BATH One of the Imperative Decrees of Health, and How Its Demands should be Obeyed 697 GROUP 8—POWER MAKING THE WORLD ANEW The Discoverers and Inventors who are Transforming the Earth and Liberating Mankind for a Happier Life 75 MAGNIFYING OUR SENSES How Man is Reaching Out Beyond His Senses, and is Blotting Oat “ Impossible ” from the Dictionary.... 197 A REVOLUTION IN STEAM The Greatest Step Forward in the Use of Steam Power Since the Days of Watt and Stephenson 323 NEW FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE A Talk with the Successor to Sir Isaac Newton, whose Discoveries may Increase the Powers of Mankind.. .. 153 WHAT A BATTLESHIP CAN DO 'File Most Terrible Concentration of Power Achieved by Man Since the Beginning of the World 577 TALKING ACROSS THE SEA The Coming of the Day when We shall Speak Across an Ocean as Clearly as Across a Table 703 GROUP 9—INDUSTRY LIFE IN THE GREAT OIL-FIELDS The Universal Power Pent Up for Ages and Ages Down in the Depths of the Earth 93 STEEL AND CIVILISATION The Life-History of the Material which has every Factory in the World and every Ship on the Sea at Its Mercy.. 213 THE COTTON OF THE WORLD The Story of the Flower of the Field that Gives Work to Millions and Clothes Mankind 337 BRITAIN’S BLACK DIAMONDS The Great Traffic in the Sunshine of the Ancient World upon which Modern Britain is Based 165 THE KEEPER OF KNOWLEDGE The Story of the Paper which Preserves the Store of Human Knowledge, and Makes the Thoughts of Men Immortal 599 PAGK A CITY’S WATER SUPPLY How the Water Comes Down from the Hills and Up from the Springs to Every Town in the British Isles.. 721 GROUP 10—COMMERCE THE CREATOR OF WEALTH The Vast Business Between Nations upon which the Prosperity of Our Islands Depends 107 THE WORLD S REAL WEALTH The Millions of New People Coming Into the World and the Effect on World-Development 231 THE FIRST TRADING NATION The Great Source of Energy upon which the Prosperity of Great Britain has been Built Up 357 EMPIRE AND MOTHERLAND A Commercial Survey of the Vast Potentialities of the Britains beyond the Seas 485 THE THREE GREAT POWERS The Tremendous Share of the World’s Commerce Con trolled by the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States 615 THE INDUSTRIAL FUTURE A Survey of the Lesser Nations and the Resources of Coal Power which will Determine Their Position .... 711 GROUP 11—SOCIETY HOW MAN GOES ON FOR EVER The Wonderful Thing of Man’s Making wljicli Lives On when Its Maker Dies 113 'THE FIRST HUMAN FAMILIES The Family as the Basis of Enduring Society and the Inspiration of All that is Best in Man. 241 ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN The Evolution of Marriage and Its Development from Savage Forms into a Sacred Institution 365 THE MINORITY OF MEN An Extraordinary Problem in Men and Women—The Disturbance of the Natural Balance between the Sexes 495 THE MARRIAGE PROBLEM Shallow Thinkers and Foolish Books which would Destroy the B ase of Modern Society 625 THE TRIUMPH OF WOMAN How the Women of Primitive Days Built the First Homes, Domesticated Man, and Gave Birth to Agri culture, Industry, and the Arts 751 GROUP 12—EUGENICS THE PEOPLE CALLED EUGENI,STS The New Science that would Control the Future and Create a Nobler Race 121 WHAT EUGENISTS ARE NOT The Test by which all Human Institutions must be Judged—the Quality of Life They Produce 249 NATIONS OF THE FUTURE The Underlying Forces which may Change the Future of the World and Upset the Balance of Power 377 THE NEW MANKIND The Grave Problem of the Falling Birth-Rate, and what it May Mean to the World 505 THE THING THAT MATTERS The Astounding Discovery that Nationsare Made Upof Men, and that the Foundations of Empires are Alive.. 633 ARE WE BORN OR MADE ? The Momentous Union of Nature and Nurture in the Making of Human Beings 761