In “Hawthorne and His Mosses,” Melville writes that “it is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, all subjects are infinite” (1170). Both Hawthorne take on of infinitude read them through elements essential both spiritual physical realms: water fire. When John the Baptist speaks baptisms fire in Gospel Matthew (3:11), he prefigures mortal metaphysical obsessions which find themselves immer...

Fil: Caspe, Sergio Gaston. Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia Agropecuaria. Centro Regional Buenos Aires Norte. Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria Pergamino. Agencia Extension Rural Mercedes.; Argentina

Whiskered Auklets Aethia pygmaea are relatively rare alcids, currently distributed on select islands within the Aleutian, Commander, and Kurile island chains of the North Pacific to which they are endemic (Fig. 1; Byrd & Williams 1993, Gaston & Jones 1998). Whiskered Auklets forage in tiderips, swirls, and tidal pumps or fronts on zooplankton that is concentrated near islands and offshore reefs...

research" (p. 89). Such infelicities, however, should not lull the reader into a routine denunciation of a positivism-inspired plot, for the judgement would be mistaken. Canguilhem's account of science and progress in history arises from the epistemological configurations hatched up by Gaston Bachelard. The Anglo-American reader who can tolerate what seem on first hearing to be whiggish pronoun...

The effect of music on the moods, emotions and behaviour of both individuals and groups has been noted throughout history. A number of writers have discussed the functions of music (Merriam, 1964; Gaston, 1968), while others have researched both the physiological and psychological effects (reviewed in Radocy & Boyle, 1988). As a result of this research, music has come to be considered as lying ...