Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards: Selections from Their WritingsC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 368 pages |
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Page xii
... nature . What he might have accomplished had he gone on with his youthful plans for great treatises on Mental and Natural Philosophy and Natural History we need not try to guess , large as his promise was , but we should remember the ...
... nature . What he might have accomplished had he gone on with his youthful plans for great treatises on Mental and Natural Philosophy and Natural History we need not try to guess , large as his promise was , but we should remember the ...
Page xiii
... nature and behavior of atoms ; argued that the fixed stars are suns ; commented on the difficulty in explaining why trees should grow from the seed into this or that form ; shrewdly recorded his observations of the speed of sounds ...
... nature and behavior of atoms ; argued that the fixed stars are suns ; commented on the difficulty in explaining why trees should grow from the seed into this or that form ; shrewdly recorded his observations of the speed of sounds ...
Page xiv
... natural science but also secular philosophy , in which he was more penetrat- ing , or at least more imaginative ... Nature he set type for in London . But having been badly treated by the freethinkers whom he knew and having himself ...
... natural science but also secular philosophy , in which he was more penetrat- ing , or at least more imaginative ... Nature he set type for in London . But having been badly treated by the freethinkers whom he knew and having himself ...
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... nature . In his " Things to be Considered , " side by side with his mathematical demonstrations , occur such passages as these : " To show how the Motion , Rest , and Direction of the Least Atom has an influence on the motion , rest and ...
... nature . In his " Things to be Considered , " side by side with his mathematical demonstrations , occur such passages as these : " To show how the Motion , Rest , and Direction of the Least Atom has an influence on the motion , rest and ...
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... nature from any that is obtained by natural means . ” He challenged the march of reason as he had already challenged the march of democracy , seeing in them , now that he had become so totally a theologian , only insurrection and error ...
... nature from any that is obtained by natural means . ” He challenged the march of reason as he had already challenged the march of democracy , seeing in them , now that he had become so totally a theologian , only insurrection and error ...
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