vandalicadjective(a.) Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness. vandalismnoun(n.) The spirit or conduct of the Vandals; ferocious cruelty; hostility to the arts and literature, or willful destruction or defacement of their monuments. ...
EVOLUTION AND ETHICS AND OTHER ESSAYS BY THOMAS H. HUXLEY PREFACE THE discourse on "Evolution and Ethics," reprinted in the first half of the present volume, was delivered before the University of Oxford, as the second of the annual lectures founded by M
I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. It is my earnest hope—indeed the hope of all mankind—that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the...
It will suffice to say that forecasting the run-up and potential destructiveness of a tsunami at a distant shore will depend greatly on determining the seismic parameters of the source location such as magnitude of the earthquake, its depth, its orientation, the length of the fault line, the ...