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Positive – Post-Pliocene

Positive

in photography, a picture obtained by printing from a negative, in which the lights and shades are rendered as they are in nature. See PHOTOG- RAPHY.

Positive Society

a society founded in Paris in 1848, by Comte, in the hope that it might exert as powerful an influence over the revolution as the Jacobin Club had exerted in 1789. In this he was disappointed, but the disciples who gathered around him were the germ of the Positivist Church.

Positivism

the religion of Humanity, developed from the positive philosophy, and claiming to be a synthesis of all human conceptions of the external order of the universe. Its professed aim, of social feeling over both in public and private life, is to secure the victory of self-love, of altruism over egotism.

Posse Comitatus

a force or body cure the victory of social feeling over self-love, of altruism over egotism. ered to raise in case of riot, possession kept on forcible entry, rescue, or other tion of justice.

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GEORGE BROWNE, an Amerin 1837; studied with Richard M. Hunt; ican architect; born in New York C designed numerous private residences and public buildings; and became president of the American Institute of Archi tects, the National Arts Club, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

He died in 1913.

Plymouth Rock

PLYMOUTH, MASS.

Keystone View Company

Post Glacial

in geology, a term applied to the oldest division but one of the post-Tertiary period.

Posting

traveling by means of horses hired at different stations on the journey, system established in England as early as the reign of Ed ward II.

Postmaster-General

the chief of the postoffice department.

Post Mill

a form of wind mill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis, and can be turned by means of a lever.

Post Mortem

after death, as a post-mortem examination, i. e., one made after the death of a person, in order to ascertain the cause of death either in the interests of science, or for the ends of justice.

Post-Pliocene

in geology, in the etymological sense, more modern than the Pliocene, i. e., embracing all the deposits from the end of the Pliocene till now; but Lyell, who introduced the term, restricts it to the older of these, applying the term Recent to the others.