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The Calcutta Review An Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) March 1926

1926

And about the middle of last century many circustances combined to give a seeming conformation to this theory of the world such as the apparently universal sufficiency of the Newtonian scheme of the universe and the universal validity of mathematical calculation reinforced by the newly discovered principle of the conservation of energy. [...] He finds in the plant a system of pulses which send the sap along the tubes and through the tissues of the plant as the beats of the heart send the blood through the arteries of the animal. [...] In the larger class of towns of over 50 000 inhabitants the increase in urban population amounts to 13% or more in the decade 1911-21 ; in towns between 20 000 and 50 000 the increase is only 8% and in towns between 10 000 and 20 000 less than 1%.3 The following The following table shows the proportion of urban to the total population at the time of the different Censuses. [...] The health of the villagers is ruined by the embankments of rivers which prvent the annual flushing of the natural drainage channels of the people. [...] The recent report of Sir Alexander Rtifiritbiriait Colonel W. W. Clemenshaw on the water-supply et Bedhay bears Out the truth of the above remark.1 The darkening of the river industrial and port cities by smoke from coal fires is a positive danger to the health of the people.
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Pages
170
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
The Search for a Philosophy in the Last Half-Century
377-397 Henry Stephen view
Urban Life and Economic Progress
398-423 B. Rau view
Some Features of Hooghly in the Early Company Days
424-432 R.B. Ramsbotham view
The Ethical Theism of Ramanuja
433-446 R. Ramanujachari view
Education and Politics
447-451 Nripendra Banerji view
Three Teachers
452-463 I.J.S. Taraporewala view
British Far East Dominion Policies and Peace
464-477 Taraknath Das view
The Outlook for Western Civilization
478-499 Glenn Frank view
Reviews
500-503 J.G.B view
The Convocation
504-531 unknown view
Ourselves
532-544 unknown view

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