Walks in the Regions of Science and Faith: A Series of EssaysJ. Murray, 1883 - 310 стор. |
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... conclude from the title that he will find in the book discussions of matters scientific and religious , and he will not be disappointed ; at the same time the volume is not a scientific treatise , nor yet what is called a religious ...
... conclude from the title that he will find in the book discussions of matters scientific and religious , and he will not be disappointed ; at the same time the volume is not a scientific treatise , nor yet what is called a religious ...
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... conclusions by all means which the reasoning powers of man supply , will find their complement , not their contradiction , in the knowledge conveyed by the mis- sion of Him who is both God and man . A grand conception this ; one at ...
... conclusions by all means which the reasoning powers of man supply , will find their complement , not their contradiction , in the knowledge conveyed by the mis- sion of Him who is both God and man . A grand conception this ; one at ...
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... conclusion that it would be difficult to have conceived it to be otherwise . This is a mental transition with which ... conclude that there is somehow an enormous difference between a squirrel and a codfish , between a dog and a cabbage ...
... conclusion that it would be difficult to have conceived it to be otherwise . This is a mental transition with which ... conclude that there is somehow an enormous difference between a squirrel and a codfish , between a dog and a cabbage ...
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... conclude the various properties which would be given in a treatise on the Conic Sections . From geometry we may rise to mechanics . The fundamental proposition expressed by the phrase the Parallelogram of Forces , is , as all students ...
... conclude the various properties which would be given in a treatise on the Conic Sections . From geometry we may rise to mechanics . The fundamental proposition expressed by the phrase the Parallelogram of Forces , is , as all students ...
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... conclude that the delicate adjustment of the initial circumstances was as necessary in the case of man and his ... conclusions may seem to follow . The general tendency is , I think , to suggest that neither gravitation nor evolution ...
... conclude that the delicate adjustment of the initial circumstances was as necessary in the case of man and his ... conclusions may seem to follow . The general tendency is , I think , to suggest that neither gravitation nor evolution ...
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Сторінка 290 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Сторінка 217 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I .should hardly think of the answer I had before given, that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Сторінка 238 - I say, that if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author.
Сторінка 290 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance, which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Сторінка 129 - WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree ; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Сторінка 131 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power I do not therefore love thee less. " My love involves the love before ; My love is vaster passion now ; Though mixed with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Сторінка 114 - In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all...
Сторінка 219 - ... the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker ; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Сторінка 82 - Beware of philosophy," is a precept not to be received in too large a sense : for, in this mass of nature, there is a set of things that carry in their front, though not in capital letters, yet in stenography and short characters, something of divinity ; which, to wiser reasons, serve as luminaries in the abyss of knowledge, and, to judicious beliefs, as scales and rundles to mount the pinnacles and highest pieces of divinity.
Сторінка 166 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.