The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of ScienceC. Kegan Paul, 1880 - 509 pages |
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... Moving upon Chaos Work of the Spirit on Matter and in our own Nature Convertibility of Energies • • • 121 Primal Matter and Operation of Energy • • 121 . The Coming In of Light 122 Evening and Morning Days of Creation . · 123 The ...
... Moving upon Chaos Work of the Spirit on Matter and in our own Nature Convertibility of Energies • • • 121 Primal Matter and Operation of Energy • • 121 . The Coming In of Light 122 Evening and Morning Days of Creation . · 123 The ...
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... moving round ; write a correct , or even an approximately correct , account of creation ? How , indeed , unless God taught him ? The advocates of materialism reject the Divinity , and dis- pute the accuracy of Scripture ; but ...
... moving round ; write a correct , or even an approximately correct , account of creation ? How , indeed , unless God taught him ? The advocates of materialism reject the Divinity , and dis- pute the accuracy of Scripture ; but ...
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... moving at the rate of 70 miles the minute . When rude voices say " The Lord never passeth by ; not in the wind , not in the earth- quake , not in the still , small voice ; " we cannot but marvel that some cunning creatures are so savage ...
... moving at the rate of 70 miles the minute . When rude voices say " The Lord never passeth by ; not in the wind , not in the earth- quake , not in the still , small voice ; " we cannot but marvel that some cunning creatures are so savage ...
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... moving body ; or if centres of equivalent energy were placed at equal distances , they would remain in equili- brium for ever . How , then , are the vast curves of the plane- tary bodies obtained ? To represent it mentally , fill an ...
... moving body ; or if centres of equivalent energy were placed at equal distances , they would remain in equili- brium for ever . How , then , are the vast curves of the plane- tary bodies obtained ? To represent it mentally , fill an ...
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... moving , and ignited like those nebulous patches which now shine in the far - off regions of the firmament . Now observe two facts , -1 , A large amount of light and heat sent out into space returns not again ; so that the sun and stars ...
... moving , and ignited like those nebulous patches which now shine in the far - off regions of the firmament . Now observe two facts , -1 , A large amount of light and heat sent out into space returns not again ; so that the sun and stars ...
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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...