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... earth , the mobility or stationa- riness of the globe , the six days ' creation , the six thousand years ' age of the world and of man , the universal deluge - these all have been battle - fields where the scientist and the ecclesiastic ...
... earth , the mobility or stationa- riness of the globe , the six days ' creation , the six thousand years ' age of the world and of man , the universal deluge - these all have been battle - fields where the scientist and the ecclesiastic ...
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... earth ; in the time of the schoolmen , the Aristotelian philosophy : fifty years ago , the cataclysmal systems of geology , the Cuvierian distinction of species , the creation from the dust and primitive enlightenment of man by di- rect ...
... earth ; in the time of the schoolmen , the Aristotelian philosophy : fifty years ago , the cataclysmal systems of geology , the Cuvierian distinction of species , the creation from the dust and primitive enlightenment of man by di- rect ...
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... earth is flat and im- movable , and that the fossils of the Silurian period are the remains of creatures drowned in the Flood , there are likewise those who claim to be men of science who are so ill - informed and undeveloped in ...
... earth is flat and im- movable , and that the fossils of the Silurian period are the remains of creatures drowned in the Flood , there are likewise those who claim to be men of science who are so ill - informed and undeveloped in ...
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... earth . Not " worship , mainly of the silent sort , " as Prof. Hux- ley advises , but the absolute suppression of every worshiping instinct and reverent thought , becomes her . But , without discussing at all here this CAUSES OF ACTUAL ...
... earth . Not " worship , mainly of the silent sort , " as Prof. Hux- ley advises , but the absolute suppression of every worshiping instinct and reverent thought , becomes her . But , without discussing at all here this CAUSES OF ACTUAL ...
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... earth moves ; Giordano Bru- no , burnt alive for daring to assert a plurality of worlds - such are the disgraceful illustrations of the enmity of the Roman hierarchy to the progress of physical knowledge . But do any of these facts show ...
... earth moves ; Giordano Bru- no , burnt alive for daring to assert a plurality of worlds - such are the disgraceful illustrations of the enmity of the Roman hierarchy to the progress of physical knowledge . But do any of these facts show ...
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Page 138 - That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else...
Page 69 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Page 199 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Page 196 - The scientific imagination, which is here authoritative, demands, as the origin and cause of a series of ether-waves, a particle of vibrating matter . quite as definite, though it may be excessively minute, as that which gives origin to a musical sound.
Page 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state.
Page 171 - There is no such science. There are no rules on these subjects so fixed and invariable as that their aggregate constitutes a science. I believe I have recently ran over twenty volumes, from Adam Smith to Professor Dew, of Virginia, and from the whole, if I were to pick out with one hand all the mere truisms, and with the other all the doubtful propositions, little would be left On Monday we propose to take up Kendall and Noah.