The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of ScienceC. Kegan Paul, 1878 - 484 pages |
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... separation , on the one hand , of Science from Religion , and from all connection with holy sentiment , is a surrender , by physicists , of an honourable position ; and re- duces Science to an occupation of sheer curiosity and selfish ...
... separation , on the one hand , of Science from Religion , and from all connection with holy sentiment , is a surrender , by physicists , of an honourable position ; and re- duces Science to an occupation of sheer curiosity and selfish ...
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... separated intervals ; there are beams of truth travelling from the Great Source which have not yet shone upon our mind , but will surely gladden us . When the grass has withered and the flower faded , when the Scripture Record has a new ...
... separated intervals ; there are beams of truth travelling from the Great Source which have not yet shone upon our mind , but will surely gladden us . When the grass has withered and the flower faded , when the Scripture Record has a new ...
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... separated phenomena ; and possessed little or no understanding of that natural adaptation of means to ends , of which the world is now known to be full ; if , nevertheless , this book , claiming to have been dictated by the Spirit of ...
... separated phenomena ; and possessed little or no understanding of that natural adaptation of means to ends , of which the world is now known to be full ; if , nevertheless , this book , claiming to have been dictated by the Spirit of ...
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... separating worlds of life . Sometimes they swept over frontiers quickening under prophetic motions from God . Then from a distance , measured only in heaven , light dawned through shapeless film , and in unspeakable space swept to them ...
... separating worlds of life . Sometimes they swept over frontiers quickening under prophetic motions from God . Then from a distance , measured only in heaven , light dawned through shapeless film , and in unspeakable space swept to them ...
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... separated until they are so small , that if again divided , the halves or parts are no longer similar to one another ; but one is oxygen , the other is hydrogen . Thus we have arrived at the grained structure of the whole . How finely ...
... separated until they are so small , that if again divided , the halves or parts are no longer similar to one another ; but one is oxygen , the other is hydrogen . Thus we have arrived at the grained structure of the whole . How finely ...
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