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... to nature ; because we cannot , without the assumed existence of such a power , so comprehend the works of nature as to bring them into co - ordination with the knowledge we have of b 2 PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . xi.
... to nature ; because we cannot , without the assumed existence of such a power , so comprehend the works of nature as to bring them into co - ordination with the knowledge we have of b 2 PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION . xi.
Page xxvii
... existence as an animated germ , to its full maturity of organic structure . If it be true that all the higher animals ( of course including man ) have , during their early life , gone through a series of transformations whereby they ...
... existence as an animated germ , to its full maturity of organic structure . If it be true that all the higher animals ( of course including man ) have , during their early life , gone through a series of transformations whereby they ...
Page xxxiii
... existence , they are still bound up in anatomical conditions which are essential to their continued life , and fix an impass- able barrier between one species and another . " At the period of foetal life , when frogs and fishes are ...
... existence , they are still bound up in anatomical conditions which are essential to their continued life , and fix an impass- able barrier between one species and another . " At the period of foetal life , when frogs and fishes are ...
Page xxxvi
... existence of any such law , or of a single fact whereon to build it . So far from being based on a wide induction of facts , ( and without such induction the verbal expression of a material law is no better than a mockery ) , the Author ...
... existence of any such law , or of a single fact whereon to build it . So far from being based on a wide induction of facts , ( and without such induction the verbal expression of a material law is no better than a mockery ) , the Author ...
Page xl
... existence of an intelligent power superior to the dead matter which surrounds us . This is admitted by the Author of the Vestiges : but in making this admission he is in direct antagonism with the whole school from which he borrows his ...
... existence of an intelligent power superior to the dead matter which surrounds us . This is admitted by the Author of the Vestiges : but in making this admission he is in direct antagonism with the whole school from which he borrows his ...
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Page 71 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page clxxii - To conclude therefore: Let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's Word, or in the book of God's Works — Divinity or Philosophy; — but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both.
Page 13 - Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Page 21 - THE FOOL hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
Page 164 - the doing good to mankind, in obedience to the will of God, and for the sake of everlasting happiness.
Page ccclxxxii - THE Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping, and adoration, as well of images, as of reliques, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the word of God.
Page 142 - ... 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...
Page 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For 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...
Page cclxxxi - Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts ; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind ; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour : for we are members one of another.