 Prophet, he left them immovably fixed at that point for all time to come. As there can be no return, so neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting ; instead of containing within itself the germ of growth, and adaptation to the...  The Earth and Its Inhabitants ... - Page 472by Elisée Reclus - 1891Full view - About this book
 | William Muir - 1875 - 256 pages
...at that point for all time to come. As there can be no return, so neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting ; instead of containing...circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and the rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted twelve centuries... | |
 | Sir William Muir - Koran - 1878 - 250 pages
...at that point for all time to come. As there can be no return, so neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting ; instead of containing...circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and the rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted twelve centuries... | |
 | Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) - Apologetics - 1883 - 326 pages
...at that point for all time to come. As there can be no return, BO neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting. Instead of containing...circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and the rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted twelve centuries... | |
 | Sir William Muir - Religions - 1887 - 374 pages
...that point for all time to coine. As there can be no return, so neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting. Instead of containing...circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and the rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing as when first planted twelve centuries... | |
 | John Murray Mitchell, Sir William Muir - Christianity and other religions - 1891 - 168 pages
...at that point for all time to come. As there can be no return, so neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting. Instead of containing...circumstance, expanding with the genial sunshine and the rain from heaven, it remains the same forced and stunted thing aa when first planted twelve centuries... | |
 | John Murray Mitchell, Sir William Muir - Religion - 1996 - 162 pages
...at that point for all time to come. As thore can be no return, so neither can there be any progress. The tree is of artificial planting. Instead of containing within itself the perm of growth and adaptation to the various requirements of time, and clime, and circumstance, expanding... | |
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