"Vortex" is a word in ENGLISH
A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling
or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of
the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its
action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an
eddy.
A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter,
endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the
axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the
formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing
it, by a theory of vortices.
Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging
to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.
Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth.
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