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... Facts , Classification , Inductions , and Verification PAGE 66 116 164 · 186 CHAPTER VIII . Conclusion . - Science and Religion as Fellow - Laborers in the Divine Service · • 220 PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE . INTRODUCTION . THE ...
... Facts , Classification , Inductions , and Verification PAGE 66 116 164 · 186 CHAPTER VIII . Conclusion . - Science and Religion as Fellow - Laborers in the Divine Service · • 220 PHYSICAL AND RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE . INTRODUCTION . THE ...
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... fact , so notorious that we need specify no particular instances nor details , that , by a large part of the Church , modern science is looked upon as a godless and blind teacher , a sacrilegious intruder upon the domain of revealed ...
... fact , so notorious that we need specify no particular instances nor details , that , by a large part of the Church , modern science is looked upon as a godless and blind teacher , a sacrilegious intruder upon the domain of revealed ...
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James Thompson Bixby. ousy , and abuse of physical investigation . It is a fact almost equally patent that , on the part of sci- ence likewise , among many , at least , of its repre- sentatives , there is a similar hostility entertained ...
James Thompson Bixby. ousy , and abuse of physical investigation . It is a fact almost equally patent that , on the part of sci- ence likewise , among many , at least , of its repre- sentatives , there is a similar hostility entertained ...
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... facts that its distinguished savans establish to - day , in six months will be read in every newspaper and magazine in the civilized world ; in ten years will be incorporated in our school - books , and planted in the forming minds of ...
... facts that its distinguished savans establish to - day , in six months will be read in every newspaper and magazine in the civilized world ; in ten years will be incorporated in our school - books , and planted in the forming minds of ...
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... facts , can always do this . As Prof. Huxley has said , " One never knows what exegetic ingenuity may make of the original Hebrew . " In that grand storehouse of thought and imagination , that vener- able encyclopædia of all the poetry ...
... facts , can always do this . As Prof. Huxley has said , " One never knows what exegetic ingenuity may make of the original Hebrew . " In that grand storehouse of thought and imagination , that vener- able encyclopædia of all the poetry ...
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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 102 - Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, except in so far as it may be compelled by impressed forces to change that state.
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 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.