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do!) Professor Kasner thinks that a suspended book might move upward toward 

 the hand holding it within a googolplex of years, or within some other larger finite 

 number of years. Owing to the inertia-time factor, I still remain a "doubting 

 Thomas." 



5 See, e.g., "The Dawn of Conscience," by Professor James H. Breasted (1932), 

 and "Moses and Monotheism," by Dr. Sigmund Freud (1939). 



6 Dr. Paul Epstein, Scientific Monthly, July, 1937. 



7 What differences identical twins do show are probably attributable to differences 

 in cytoplasmic inheritance; for though gene duplication is normally precise, there 

 is, even in identical twins, probably some difference in the apportionment of the 

 cytoplasm of the zygote during the first (and subsequent) mitotic divisions, and this 

 involves particulate inclusions in the cytoplasm. 



8 F. C. Carr, Chemistry and Industry (1934) 53, 123. 



9 Science, April 18th, 1924, p. 349 (The Contributions of China to the Science and 

 Art of Medicine). 



10 A. W. von Hofmann, Berichte (1884) 17, 637, referate. 



11 The British Museum has a unique copy, published in London, 1666; but from 

 memoranda left by Wigglesworth, it is possible that undated copies owned by 

 several American historical societies may represent an earlier American edition 

 about 1662. 



12 Cicero said in an oration against Verres: "Facinus est cruciare civum Romanum; 

 scelus verbere; prope parricidum necare; quid dicam in crucem tollere?" (It is a 

 wrong to harm a Roman citizen; a crime to beat him; practically parricide to kill 

 him; but to crucify him, what shall I call it?). 



