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Page 118 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn, That he who made it, and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 147 - All flesh is not the same flesh : but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
Page 48 - The opinion of the earth's motion is of all heresies the most abominable, the most pernicious, the most scandalous ; the immovability of the earth is thrice sacred ; argument against the immortality of the soul, the existence of God, and the incarnation, should be tolerated sooner than an argument to prove that the earth moves.
Page 29 - In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : which cometh forth as a bridegroom out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a giant to run his course.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Warfare of Science |
| Author | Andrew Dickson White |
| Publisher | D. Appleton, 1876 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | Feb 28, 2008 |
| Length | 151 pages |
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