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Page xxvi
... suppose that specific transmutations are now going on at the bottom of the scale , where our senses fail us , and we can have no good evidence of the fact ; while no transmutations are going on in the upper steps of the organic scale ...
... suppose that specific transmutations are now going on at the bottom of the scale , where our senses fail us , and we can have no good evidence of the fact ; while no transmutations are going on in the upper steps of the organic scale ...
Page xxvii
... suppose that in the universal womb of the living world one species may be transformed into another on a similar ascend- ing scale ? Taking it at the very best , the assertion implied in such a question is based only on a vague analogy ...
... suppose that in the universal womb of the living world one species may be transformed into another on a similar ascend- ing scale ? Taking it at the very best , the assertion implied in such a question is based only on a vague analogy ...
Page xxix
... suppose animal life to have begun . The first changes of the organic germ within the ovum of a mammal do resemble those observed in what has been called the " fissiparous generation " of the lowest grades of the animal kingdom . But ...
... suppose animal life to have begun . The first changes of the organic germ within the ovum of a mammal do resemble those observed in what has been called the " fissiparous generation " of the lowest grades of the animal kingdom . But ...
Page xxxiv
... suppose , with a semblance of reason , that different Classes of the animal kingdom were not merely laid down upon the same general plan , but that they passed , by insensible gradations , into one another . As a matter of fact ...
... suppose , with a semblance of reason , that different Classes of the animal kingdom were not merely laid down upon the same general plan , but that they passed , by insensible gradations , into one another . As a matter of fact ...
Page lxxiii
... suppose an increment of temper- ature of more than one degree of our common scale . In this way we may , without any appeal to a more direct Plutonic action , account for a great internal ter- restrial heat - sufficient perhaps ( when ...
... suppose an increment of temper- ature of more than one degree of our common scale . In this way we may , without any appeal to a more direct Plutonic action , account for a great internal ter- restrial heat - sufficient perhaps ( when ...
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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.