The Bible of Nature, and Substance of Virtue: Condensed from the Scriptures of Eminent Cosmians, Pantheists and Physiphilanthropists, of Various Ages and Climes ...G. Vale, 1849 - Ethics |
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... existence . A spirit internal supports all - earth , ocean and ether , Flies to the moon's lucid orb , stars distant and sunlike , The mind , through each member diffused , all matter enlivens ; Thence men and animals sprung , birds ...
... existence . A spirit internal supports all - earth , ocean and ether , Flies to the moon's lucid orb , stars distant and sunlike , The mind , through each member diffused , all matter enlivens ; Thence men and animals sprung , birds ...
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... existence . A spirit internal supports all - earth , ocean and ether , Flies to the moon's lucid orb , stars distant and sunlike , The mind , through each member diffused , all matter enlivens ; Thence men and animals sprung , birds ...
... existence . A spirit internal supports all - earth , ocean and ether , Flies to the moon's lucid orb , stars distant and sunlike , The mind , through each member diffused , all matter enlivens ; Thence men and animals sprung , birds ...
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... existence , ) so likewise the intellectual facul- ty must proceed from some other cause of its own kind . Our death and our birth are equally the mysterious work of Nature . Death is the dissolution of those elements which at our birth ...
... existence , ) so likewise the intellectual facul- ty must proceed from some other cause of its own kind . Our death and our birth are equally the mysterious work of Nature . Death is the dissolution of those elements which at our birth ...
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... existence from all eternity ? A similar question may be asked in relation to our bodies ; how can the earth contain the infinite number , which have been buried in it , from so immense a space of duration ? But as in the latter case ...
... existence from all eternity ? A similar question may be asked in relation to our bodies ; how can the earth contain the infinite number , which have been buried in it , from so immense a space of duration ? But as in the latter case ...
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... existence , and my parents before me ; and so on backwards to all eter- nity . For thus , I think , we may speak ; though the world be really limited to certain fixed periods and stated revolu Reason is a faculty which is sufficient for ...
... existence , and my parents before me ; and so on backwards to all eter- nity . For thus , I think , we may speak ; though the world be really limited to certain fixed periods and stated revolu Reason is a faculty which is sufficient for ...
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Page 107 - To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils, with infinite Manslaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory...
Page 126 - NATURE hath made men so equal in the faculties of the body and mind, as that, though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body or of quicker mind than another, yet when all is reckoned together the difference between man and man is not so considerable as that one man can thereupon claim to himself any benefit to which another may not pretend as well as he.
Page 147 - there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid.