The Theistic Conception of the World: An Essay in Opposition to Certain Tendencies of Modern ThoughtHarper, 1875 - 426 pages |
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... Animals and men are born and developed to maturity , then they sicken and die . The earth itself is in constant change . The storms of heaven , the erosion of the atmosphere , the gnawing of the tidal wave , the mount- ain torrent , the ...
... Animals and men are born and developed to maturity , then they sicken and die . The earth itself is in constant change . The storms of heaven , the erosion of the atmosphere , the gnawing of the tidal wave , the mount- ain torrent , the ...
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... animal has more determinations than the vital plant ; rational man has more determinations than the percipient animal , he is the most complicated , the most determined , and therefore the most perfect being in crea- tion . An ...
... animal has more determinations than the vital plant ; rational man has more determinations than the percipient animal , he is the most complicated , the most determined , and therefore the most perfect being in crea- tion . An ...
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... animal , had a begin- ning ; there was a time when they were not . The geolo- gist can indicate that time , if not by years , at least by pe- riods , and show what were its relations to the periods that went before and that came after ...
... animal , had a begin- ning ; there was a time when they were not . The geolo- gist can indicate that time , if not by years , at least by pe- riods , and show what were its relations to the periods that went before and that came after ...
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... animal life subsisted there which are now confined to the torrid zone . Mammoths lived in the now uninhabited polar regions , and tree - ferns and the tropical shell - fish found there a home . The surface of the earth was then warmed ...
... animal life subsisted there which are now confined to the torrid zone . Mammoths lived in the now uninhabited polar regions , and tree - ferns and the tropical shell - fish found there a home . The surface of the earth was then warmed ...
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... animals , was to intro- duce man upon the earth . Man is the end toward which all the animal creation has tended from the appearance of the Palæozoic fishes . " - Agassiz and Gould , " Principles of Zoology , " p . 238. See Dr ...
... animals , was to intro- duce man upon the earth . Man is the end toward which all the animal creation has tended from the appearance of the Palæozoic fishes . " - Agassiz and Gould , " Principles of Zoology , " p . 238. See Dr ...
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Page 180 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light and heat refulgent. Then THY sun...
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Page 141 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Page 142 - And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
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