Vestiges of the Natural History of CreationWiley and Putnam, 1845 - 280 pagina's |
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Pagina xi
... reason , the highest act of spiritual being , turned towards spiritual wisdom , towards eternal truth . Faith in the word of God is the act of our whole being ; infi- delity is the work of a depraved part of it . The voice of true ...
... reason , the highest act of spiritual being , turned towards spiritual wisdom , towards eternal truth . Faith in the word of God is the act of our whole being ; infi- delity is the work of a depraved part of it . The voice of true ...
Pagina xv
... reason , or to endeavor to reason , from nature , just as you would without reve- lation , is to mistake and pervert both nature and revelation , and to produce a mongrel philosophy , having the truth of neither , and unworthy of both ...
... reason , or to endeavor to reason , from nature , just as you would without reve- lation , is to mistake and pervert both nature and revelation , and to produce a mongrel philosophy , having the truth of neither , and unworthy of both ...
Pagina 2
... reason to presume that the distance of the former might be about nineteen millions of millions of miles , and the latter of much greater amount . If we suppose that similar interval sexist between all the stars we shall readily see that ...
... reason to presume that the distance of the former might be about nineteen millions of millions of miles , and the latter of much greater amount . If we suppose that similar interval sexist between all the stars we shall readily see that ...
Pagina 15
... of a series of planets , for there are mathematical reasons for concluding that Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun , which can , ac- cording to the laws of the system , exist . THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . 15.
... of a series of planets , for there are mathematical reasons for concluding that Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun , which can , ac- cording to the laws of the system , exist . THEIR ARRANGEMENTS AND FORMATION . 15.
Pagina 16
... reason- able to suppose that , among the many , some are older than ours . There is , indeed , one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system , altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic ...
... reason- able to suppose that , among the many , some are older than ours . There is , indeed , one piece of evidence for the probability of the comparative youth of our system , altogether apart from human traditions and the geognostic ...
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advance American amongst animal kingdom animalcules appear arrangement become beds birds body brain called carboniferous causes character circumstances civilisation coal connexion constitution crag and tail creatures cretaceous crinoidea crustacea diluvium doctrine early earth eocene evil existence external fact faculties favorable feet fishes formation fossils genera geological globe heat human hypothesis ichthyosaurus idea infusoria instances kind land animals language less limestone living mammalia marsupial mass matter ment mental mind mollusks moral nature observed Old Red Sandstone oolite operation organic creation original pachydermata particular peculiar perfect perhaps phenomena plants present primary rocks produced quadrumana race red sandstone regard remarkable reptiles respect scale seen Silurian solar system space species stars strata structure substance supposed surface terrestrial animal things tion traces tribes truth various vast VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL vertebral column vertebrata whole word
Populaire passages
Pagina ix - These wait all upon thee ; That thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That thou givest them they gather : Thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Pagina xxvii - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us.
Pagina vii - For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water, whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished; but the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
Pagina x - And said unto the woman. Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Pagina 235 - The difference beiween mind in the lower animals and in man is a difference in degree only; it is not a specific difference. All who have studied animals by actual observation, and even those who have given a candid attention to the subject in books, must attain more or less clear convictions of this truth, notwithstanding all the obscurity which prejudice may have engendered.
Pagina 250 - But when order is generally triumphant, and reason allowed sway, men begin to see the true case of criminals—namely, that while one large department are victims of erroneous social conditions, another are brought to error by tendencies which they are only unfortunate in having inherited from nature. Criminal jurisprudence then addresses itself less to the direct punishment than to the reformation and care-taking of those liable to its attention.
Pagina 8 - It has been found that, with respect to any two planets, the squares of the times of revolutions are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances,— a most surprising result, for the discovery of which the world was indebted to the illustrious Kepler. Sir John Herschel truly observes...