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Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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ho are naturally nervous. When nightmare comes from eating heavily before retiring, the victim has the remedy in his own hands. Parents should not permit their children to listen to tales of horror or ghost stories before bedtime, especially if the children are of nervous temperament. The word nightmare has an interesting derivation. Mare was originally applied to an evil spirit that oppressed people at night while they were asleep, and the Anglo-Saxon root from which it is derived means crusher. NIGHT SCHOOLS. See School, under subhead Evening Schools. NIGHTSHADE, the name given to a large number of ill-smelling herbs, whose leaves resemble those of the violet in shape, and some of which have a soothing effect upon the nerves. There are about 1,500 species of these plants, and they are found growing in damp woods and fields and along shady banks, chiefly in Southern and Central America, never in veyy cold regions. They have, in general, slender stems, clustered small white flowers and bluish
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berries, many of them being poisonous. One of the latter sort, the deadly nightshade, sometimes called belladonna, was supposed to have sprung from the foam which dripped from the savage jaws of Cerberus, Plutos three-headed dog (see C e it -BERus). Other well - known species of nightshade are woody, black and enchanters. NIHILISTS AND NIHILISM, ni hi lists, ni hilizm. Nihilism is the name given by the Russian writer Turgenieff (about 1860), to the doctrines taught by the social agitators of his day, who wished to overthrow society as it then existed and reorganize it in accordance with their theories, called Nihilists. At first, nihilism was a philosophical and lit-erary movement. Its adherents deemed it nec-essary to free themselves from every form ofdependence on generally accepted beliefs. Inreligion, this movement was frankly atheistic (see Atheism); in science, it supported evolution and the newer teachings of the day; in social affairs, it taught the complete equality of the sexes; in government

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