The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of ScienceC. Kegan Paul, 1880 - 509 pages |
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... less of spon- taneous action in Nature , strange to say , some assume univer- sality of rigid action in physical laws - which action is not known to be true of any law at all , and , absurdly enough , they apply it to religion and ...
... less of spon- taneous action in Nature , strange to say , some assume univer- sality of rigid action in physical laws - which action is not known to be true of any law at all , and , absurdly enough , they apply it to religion and ...
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... less , on the one hand , than the loss of everything which can elevate man ; and , on the other , his degradation to a brute - nature . Those who trifle with unbelief should well understand this ultimate issue , and draw back while ...
... less , on the one hand , than the loss of everything which can elevate man ; and , on the other , his degradation to a brute - nature . Those who trifle with unbelief should well understand this ultimate issue , and draw back while ...
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... less incomprehensible than those of the vast and bright far - off suns . This connection of all visible things with the invisible , and of life with germs that possibly are not organised in the sense of being eggs - possibly , in ...
... less incomprehensible than those of the vast and bright far - off suns . This connection of all visible things with the invisible , and of life with germs that possibly are not organised in the sense of being eggs - possibly , in ...
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... less future ; the first link hides in the past eternal , and the last vanishes in the future eternal ; all Nature , on one side , touches the seen , on the other , the unseen . It is an essential part of our nature to be conscious of ...
... less future ; the first link hides in the past eternal , and the last vanishes in the future eternal ; all Nature , on one side , touches the seen , on the other , the unseen . It is an essential part of our nature to be conscious of ...
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... less than religion , can stand alone ; but must freely combine with all right efforts for the betterment of our race . Men of science are priests of the material universe ; why do they not , seeing that the feelings of awe , reverence ...
... less than religion , can stand alone ; but must freely combine with all right efforts for the betterment of our race . Men of science are priests of the material universe ; why do they not , seeing that the feelings of awe , reverence ...
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Page 487 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven, and in the earth is thine ; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 249 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
Page 149 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates : that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 12 - Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in. the prophets : Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish : for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Page 255 - Glory to God in the highest; and on earth peace to men of good will.
Page 22 - Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory : He, that ever following her commands, On with toil of heart and knees and hands, Thro...
Page 284 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 118 - That life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom To shape and use.
Page 182 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madst it pregnant...