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... origin in the poetic imagination ; knowledge , on the the reasoning intelligence of man . blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge , unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical ima- ginings of faith or not.1 other hand ...
... origin in the poetic imagination ; knowledge , on the the reasoning intelligence of man . blessed fruits from the tree of knowledge , unconcerned whether these conquests trench upon the poetical ima- ginings of faith or not.1 other hand ...
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... origin of matter ; but he tells us subsequently that there is no purpose in nature , and no such thing as beneficence on the part of a Creator . Every one ( he writes ) who makes a really close study of the organisation and mode of life ...
... origin of matter ; but he tells us subsequently that there is no purpose in nature , and no such thing as beneficence on the part of a Creator . Every one ( he writes ) who makes a really close study of the organisation and mode of life ...
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... origin of theology whenever it may seem fit to us , how can we speak of the object of theology being the throwing of light upon natural laws ? It seems to me that we may fairly regard the beginning of the Holy Scriptures as the starting ...
... origin of theology whenever it may seem fit to us , how can we speak of the object of theology being the throwing of light upon natural laws ? It seems to me that we may fairly regard the beginning of the Holy Scriptures as the starting ...
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... origin of theology at the opening of the New Testament , we find as little ground for asserting this strange view of the ' object of theclogy . ' The Incarnation is manifestly the basis of the theology of the New Testament . Whether we ...
... origin of theology at the opening of the New Testament , we find as little ground for asserting this strange view of the ' object of theclogy . ' The Incarnation is manifestly the basis of the theology of the New Testament . Whether we ...
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... Origin of Species , ' or Sir John Lubbock's book on Ants , Bees , and Wasps , ' as in any sense theo- logical ? If it be meant that the study of nature brings before the mind a very glorious picture of power and wisdom and skill , no ...
... Origin of Species , ' or Sir John Lubbock's book on Ants , Bees , and Wasps , ' as in any sense theo- logical ? If it be meant that the study of nature brings before the mind a very glorious picture of power and wisdom and skill , no ...
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Page 290 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Page 217 - I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to be in that place ; I .should hardly think of the answer I had before given, that, for anything I knew, the watch might have always been there.
Page 238 - I say, that if one train of thinking be more desirable than another, it is that which regards the phenomena of nature with a constant reference to a supreme intelligent Author.
Page 290 - These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance, which is almost implied by reproduction ; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life, and from use and disuse...
Page 129 - WHATEVER brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home; Where sisters dwell and brothers meet Quarrels should never come. Birds in their little nests agree ; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
Page 131 - I seem in star and flower To feel thee some diffusive power I do not therefore love thee less. " My love involves the love before ; My love is vaster passion now ; Though mixed with God and Nature thou, I seem to love thee more and more.
Page 114 - In doubt to deem himself a God or Beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little or too much; Chaos of thought and passion, all...
Page 219 - ... the inference, we think, is inevitable, that the watch must have had a maker ; that there must have existed, at some time, and at some place or other, an artificer or artificers, who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction, and designed its use.
Page 82 - Beware of philosophy," is a precept not to be received in too large a sense : for, in this mass of nature, there is a set of things that carry in their front, though not in capital letters, yet in stenography and short characters, something of divinity ; which, to wiser reasons, serve as luminaries in the abyss of knowledge, and, to judicious beliefs, as scales and rundles to mount the pinnacles and highest pieces of divinity.
Page 166 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.