 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 lehte
...Professor Tyndall assigns for disputing the value of prayer in such cases is, that natural laws would be "more or less at the mercy of man's volition, and...permanence of those laws would be worthy of confidence." The answer is obvious. Prayer is not compulsion. No petition will be granted unless the Almighty thinks... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1862 - 150 lehte
...Granting ' the power of Free Will in man,' so strongly claimed in his admirable essay by the last defender of the belief in miracles *, and assuming the efficacy...permanence of those laws would be worthy of confidence. These considerations have been already practically acted upon by individual ministers of the Church... | |
 | Irish ecclesiastical record - 1868 - 596 lehte
...more into the able hands of Professor Tyndall : — " Granting the power of Free Will in man . . . and assuming the efficacy of free prayer to produce...no conclusion founded on the assumed permanence of these laws would be worthy of confidence." — (" Fragments of Science," page 36). Passing by, for... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1862 - 538 lehte
...Professor Tyndall assigns for disputing the value of prayer in such cases is, that natural laws would be ' more or less at the mercy of man's volition, and no...permanence of those laws would be ' worthy of confidence.' The answer is obvious. Prayer is not compulsion. No petition will be granted unless the Almighty thinks... | |
 | Robert William Dale, James Guinness Rogers - 1884 - 1122 lehte
...through the keyhole. . . . Professor Tyndall holds ' that if prayer can affect physical phenomena, it necessarily follows that natural laws are more...man's volition ; and no conclusion founded on the permanency of these laws would be worthy of confidence.' .... The fact is, that no physical law is... | |
 | 1872 - 980 lehte
...efficacy of free prayer to produce changes in external nature, it necessarily follows that natural litwa are more or less at the mercy of man's volition, and no conclusion founded on the permanence of those laws would be worthy of confidence." That there must be a flaw in this reasoning,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1874 - 852 lehte
...our purposes only by changing the laws of nature. He says: "Granting the power of free will in man, and assuming the efficacy of free prayer to produce...volition, and no conclusion founded on the assumed permanency of those laws would be worthy of confidence.'' (p. 40.) But we have in the locomotive an... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 lehte
...controlling, modifying, or determining influence on the procession of phenomena. "Assuming the efficacy of prayer to produce changes in external nature, it necessarily...assumed permanence of those laws would be worthy of confidence."2 But are not natural laws more or less subject to man's volition? Does he not act upon... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 lehte
...and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.' Granting ' the power of Free Will in man,' so strongly claimed by Professor Mansel in...confidence. It is a wholesome sign for England that she number? among her clergy men wise enough to understand all this, and courageous enough to act up to... | |
 | 1882 - 880 lehte
...of a bad harvest. He concludes if free prayer can "produce changes in external Nature (capital N), it necessarily follows that natural laws are more...permanence of those laws would be worthy of confidence. These are the insuperable difficulties presented to us. (i.)-The principle of correlation of forces... | |
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the power of Free Will in man,' so strongly claimed by Professor Mansel in his admirable defence of the belief in miracles, and assuming the efficacy of free prayer to produce changes in external nature, it necessarily follows that natural laws are more... 
