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ARGUIN, an island (identified by some writers with Hanno's Cerne), off the west coast of Africa, a little south of Cape Blanco, in 20° 25' N., 16° 37' W. It is some 4 m. long by i\ broad, produces gum-arabic, and is the seat of a lucrative turtle-fishery. Off ...

ARGON (from the Or. &-, privative, and tpyov, work; hence meaning " inert "). a gaseous constituent of atmospheric air. For more than a hundred years before 1894 it had been supposed that the composition of the atmosphere was thoroughly known. Beyond variable

ARGUS, in ancient Greek mythology, the son of Inachus, Agenor or Arestor, or, according to others, an earth-born hero (autochthon). He was called Panoptes (all-seeing), from having eyes all over his body. After performing several feats of valour, he was appoin

AUBIN, a town o( southern France, in the department of run on ilu- 1 inic, 30 m. N.W. of Kodcz. In 1906 the urban (Hipulation was ing, the communal population 0086. Aubin is the centre of important coal-mines worked in the middle ages, and also has iron-mines,

... her animistic nor even animalistic in character. But we are hardly justified in arguing from the case of Australia to a general conclusion as to the origin of religious ideas in all other parts of the world. It is perhaps safest to say that the science of reli ...

... ampaign against Judaism to its offspring, Christianity. In 1879 Professor Sepp, arguing that Jesus was of no human race, had proposed that Christianity should reject the Hebrew Scriptures and seek a fresh historical basis in the cuneiform inscriptions. Later D ...

... the reason, whether prudence or wisdom (M.M. i. 5, 1185 b 8-12), and afterwards arguing that prudence is a virtue, precisely because it is praised (i. 35, H97al6-l8). In dealing with continence and incontinence, the same doubts and solutions occur as in the Ni ...