The Soul in Nature: With Supplementary ContributionsH. G. Bohn, 1852 - 465 стор. |
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Сторінка 169 - ... in the vegetable kingdom as in all the rest of nature. In the dry, hot seasons of the torrid zone, the evaporation produced by heat, both in the ground and in plants, has such a preponderating tendency to dry up, that the water which dissolves at last loses the chemical action by which the nourishing materials are carried through the different parts of vegetables. Now, if the chemical action in these plants ceases for a period, it is not caused by the cessation of those chemical laws — these...
Сторінка 129 - The variety in the nature of the planets of our own system is very great, but if we extend our thoughts over the whole universe the differences are endless. On some planets the creatures may possibly be on a far larger scale, on others far smaller than our own ; on some, perhaps, they are formed of less solid matter, or may, indeed, approach the transparency of aether, or, on others again, be formed of much denser matter.
Сторінка 108 - ... as our earth. This we know, however, that they have developed themselves during immeasurable periods of time in a series of transformations, which has also influenced the vegetable and animal creation of those periods. This development began with the lower forms, and advanced by gradual steps to the higher, till at length in the most recent periods a creature was produced in which self-conscious knowledge was revealed.
Сторінка 109 - Nature, although they are only brought into consciousness by natural phenomena ; while surrounding nature without human aid must operate in accordance with man's faculty of understanding, although this understanding faculty may in general, only after several thousand years, attain an insight into the pervading harmony of existence. It is easy to perceive that the grounds which lead us to this conviction are also everywhere valid. Throughout the universe there are beings endowed with the faculty of...
Сторінка 188 - THE WORLD IN ITS NATURE PERFECT. The world is in its nature perfect; as a divine work it must be so; but since man, in consequence of his limited powers, easily adopts a mistaken view of the world around him, and so much the more the less he strives after the divine light, the world appears to him as something separate and apart from God. Thus the world appears through the guilt of man; but it is not corrupted and destroyed in consequence of its own nature. Neither Christ nor any of the biblical...
Сторінка xviii - The electric telegraph, and other wonders of modern science, were but mere effervescences from the surface of this deep, recondite discovery which Oersted had liberated, and which was yet to burst with all its mighty force upon the world. If we were to characterize by any figure the advantage of Oersted to science, we would regard him as a fertilizing shower descending from heaven, which brought forth a new crop, delightful to the eye, and pleasing to the heart.
Сторінка 149 - Through the woods I call, and through the wave. They give back an empty sound. All unconscious of the joys she renders, Of the spirit that rules her, unaware; Heedless of her own surpassing splendours, Senseless to the bliss she bids me share ; E'en unmindful of her Maker's praiseLike the dead beat of the swinging hour, Nature, of her gods bereft, obeys Slave-like, mere mechanic power. To renew at morn her course diurnal, Every night she digs her grave profound, Whilst encircling moons, in flight...
Сторінка 343 - ... one law of nature from the other, and by the known laws to discover new and unknown ones. Innumerable as are the • effects determined by natural laws in every object in nature however insignificant it may be, I -deeply feel an infinite, unfathomable reason within them, of which I can only comprehend by fragments an incalculably small part. In short, nature is to me the revelation of an endless living and acting reason.
Сторінка xvii - ... whole state of science, and almost convulsing the knowledge of the world. He had at this meeting developed to them some of those recondite and remarkable powers which he had been himself the first to discover, and which went almost to the extent of obliging them to alter their views on the most ordinary laws of force and of motion. He elaborated his ideas with slowness and certainty, bringing them forward only after a long lapse of time. How often did he (Sir John Herschel) wish to heaven that...