Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us. To which are Added Essays on Astrology and the Jewish SabbathH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 323 pagini |
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... seems to me impossible to obtain from science any clear ideas respecting the ways or nature of the Deity , or even respecting the reality of an Almighty personal God . Science deals with the finite though it may carry our thoughts to ...
... seems to me impossible to obtain from science any clear ideas respecting the ways or nature of the Deity , or even respecting the reality of an Almighty personal God . Science deals with the finite though it may carry our thoughts to ...
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... seem to find clear evidence of a process of evolution . We see first the traces of a central aggregation . This aggregation becomes more and more clearly defined , until there is no possibility of mistaking its nature as a centre having ...
... seem to find clear evidence of a process of evolution . We see first the traces of a central aggregation . This aggregation becomes more and more clearly defined , until there is no possibility of mistaking its nature as a centre having ...
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... seem , the earth grew in this way . This firm earth on which we live represents an aggregation of matter not from one portion of space , but from all space . All that is upon and within the earth , all vegetable forms and all animal ...
... seem , the earth grew in this way . This firm earth on which we live represents an aggregation of matter not from one portion of space , but from all space . All that is upon and within the earth , all vegetable forms and all animal ...
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... seems to me a reasonable inference , although it is certain that the present rate of growth continued even for hundreds of millions of years would not appreciably affect the earth's mass . * And it is a thought worthy of consideration ...
... seems to me a reasonable inference , although it is certain that the present rate of growth continued even for hundreds of millions of years would not appreciably affect the earth's mass . * And it is a thought worthy of consideration ...
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... seems equally clear that each individual orb of the system , if not each subordinate scheme within it , has also under- gone a process of contraction from a former nebulous condition . In this early gaseous stage our earth was preparing ...
... seems equally clear that each individual orb of the system , if not each subordinate scheme within it , has also under- gone a process of contraction from a former nebulous condition . In this early gaseous stage our earth was preparing ...
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Our Place Among Infinities: A Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode ... Richard Anthony Proctor Vizualizare completă - 1876 |
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Pagina 264 - Our Place among Infinities : A Series of Essays contrasting our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around us.
Pagina 235 - Army of the North German Confederation. A Brief Description of its Organization, of the Different Branches of the Service and their rdle in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c., &c.
Pagina 192 - Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, Even to make the poor of the land to fail, Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, Making the ephah small, and the shekel great, And falsifying the balances by deceit?
Pagina 190 - I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt-oflerings and sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you that it may be well with you.
Pagina 189 - And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
Pagina 189 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand; This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: For I should have denied the God that is above.
Pagina 275 - VYNER (Lady Mary). Every day a Portion. Adapted from the Bible and the Prayer Book, for the Private Devotions of those living in Widowhood.
Pagina 243 - COLLINS (Rev. R.), MA Missionary Enterprise in the East. With special reference to the Syrian Christians of Malabar, and the results of modern Missions. With Four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s.
Pagina 256 - BASTIAN, MD, FRS The Brain as an Organ of Mind. Prof. AC RAMSAY, LL.D., FRS Earth Sculpture : Hills, Valleys, Mountains, Plains, Rivers, Lakes ; how they were Produced, and how they have been Destroyed.
Pagina 244 - PROVIDENCE HOUSE. By Mrs. GL Banks. FOR LACK OF GOLD. By Charles Gibbon. ABEL DRAKE'S WIFE. By John Saunders. CORY (Lieu tenant- Colonel Arthur).