The Supernatural in Nature: A Verification by Free Use of ScienceC. Kegan Paul, 1880 - 509 pages |
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... Passing into Life Life seems to be Nature's Great Purpose Life a Progress · 199 table Life 199 System of Vegetation 199 200 Account . Comprehensiveness of the Sacred · Classification Mutable Order of Introduction · Succession of ...
... Passing into Life Life seems to be Nature's Great Purpose Life a Progress · 199 table Life 199 System of Vegetation 199 200 Account . Comprehensiveness of the Sacred · Classification Mutable Order of Introduction · Succession of ...
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... Catastrophes · Coral 407 , Birds of Passage 408 Fishes · 408 Passing away of other Worlds Unknown Energies at Work . Communion of Spirit · • • Synthetic Types 408 Contents . XXV PAGE PAGE A Puzzling Truth Faults of xxiv Contents .
... Catastrophes · Coral 407 , Birds of Passage 408 Fishes · 408 Passing away of other Worlds Unknown Energies at Work . Communion of Spirit · • • Synthetic Types 408 Contents . XXV PAGE PAGE A Puzzling Truth Faults of xxiv Contents .
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... passes from the proving to the evolving , from the arguing to the appropriating , the earlier will the real height of the argument be attained . Many a man allows the best part of life to be crippled by doubt , and the halting so ...
... passes from the proving to the evolving , from the arguing to the appropriating , the earlier will the real height of the argument be attained . Many a man allows the best part of life to be crippled by doubt , and the halting so ...
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... passing of the supernatural into history . Schelling too pantheistically expresses it- " Nature is visible mind , and mind is invisible nature . " Put it more correctly and scien- tifically- " the phenomenal universe is the ...
... passing of the supernatural into history . Schelling too pantheistically expresses it- " Nature is visible mind , and mind is invisible nature . " Put it more correctly and scien- tifically- " the phenomenal universe is the ...
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... pass into real conception . The nearest approach is to con- ceive potential existence passing into actual existence , or existence long remaining in one form , then suddenly , and of its own accord , passing into another form ; but that ...
... pass into real conception . The nearest approach is to con- ceive potential existence passing into actual existence , or existence long remaining in one form , then suddenly , and of its own accord , passing into another form ; but that ...
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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.
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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...