Man Primeval, Or, The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human Being: A Contribution to Theological ScienceGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1849 - 480 pages |
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... or mechanism of the heavens . Though only a subordinate matter , it may not be out of place to state my reasons for the space accorded , in the first Part , to the consideration of the human constitution and of natural laws PREFACE .
... or mechanism of the heavens . Though only a subordinate matter , it may not be out of place to state my reasons for the space accorded , in the first Part , to the consideration of the human constitution and of natural laws PREFACE .
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... space , motion in time . 6 , Every phenomenon has a cause . 7 , Every attribute implies a substance . 8 , Secondary qualities imply externality . 9 , Ex- ternal phenomena sustain relations of resemblance . 10 , Means and ends , or final ...
... space , motion in time . 6 , Every phenomenon has a cause . 7 , Every attribute implies a substance . 8 , Secondary qualities imply externality . 9 , Ex- ternal phenomena sustain relations of resemblance . 10 , Means and ends , or final ...
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... spaces on its surface become " formless and waste , " and " darkness " had hung " on the face of the deep . " And as often had the creative will recalled it from chaos , and restored it to order and beauty . But even each of these suc ...
... spaces on its surface become " formless and waste , " and " darkness " had hung " on the face of the deep . " And as often had the creative will recalled it from chaos , and restored it to order and beauty . But even each of these suc ...
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... space till the earth was made , God , by giving him his present constitution , would have given a pledge that the material globe to be created as his habitation should harmonize with it . On the other hand , as the earth was created ...
... space till the earth was made , God , by giving him his present constitution , would have given a pledge that the material globe to be created as his habitation should harmonize with it . On the other hand , as the earth was created ...
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... space . Every body is somewhere , for space is its place . Every body has extension , and occupies space ; has figure , and measures it ; has parts , and co - exists in it . Of space without body we can conceive , but not of body without ...
... space . Every body is somewhere , for space is its place . Every body has extension , and occupies space ; has figure , and measures it ; has parts , and co - exists in it . Of space without body we can conceive , but not of body without ...
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Page 80 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 294 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.
Page 452 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, From the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth...
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Page 58 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.
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Page 241 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Page 80 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 15 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.