 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...to be far greater.”— “What,” he continues, “ can we infer from all this? If the number of creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay immense,...be the power and wisdom of him who formed them all !“ Early in 1692, the Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis was finished,... | |
 | William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...plants to be far greater."— '' What," he continues, " can we infer from all this ? If the number of creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay immense,...the power and wisdom of Him who formed them all!" Early in 1692, the Synopsis Methodica Animalium Quadrupedum et Serpentini Generis was finished, and... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1896 - 1004 pages
...number of plants to be far greater. What," he continues, " can we infer from all this? If the number of creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay, immense,...and of insects we still know the smaller portion.+ As knowledge of species of animals and plants increased, the necessity of system in registering them... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 898 pages
...of those it was estimated that there were about "20,000 in the whole world," whereas about 400,000 species of animals are now known, and of insects we still know the smaller portion. As knowledge of species of animals and plants increased, the necessity of system in registering them... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - Philosophy - 1982 - 292 pages
...probably 18,000 or more different species of plants. What can we infer from all this? If the number of Creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay, immense, must needs be the Power and Wisdom of him who form'd them allí... As it argues and manifests more Skill by far in an Artificer, to be able to frame... | |
 | Richard Drayton, Richard Harry Drayton - Science - 2000 - 388 pages
...second urged study of the variety of nature as a whole, since the vast number of creations revealed 'how great nay immense must needs be the Power and Wisdom of him who form'd them all!'. 105 The Wisdom, reprinted a dozen times in a century, 'more than any other single... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...of plants. "What can we infer from all this?" he wrote. "If the number of Creatures be exceedingly great, how great, nay, immense, must needs be the Power and Wisdom of him who form'd them all!" Where Do Plants Belong? Even as he was finding expression of God's presence in such... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Religion - 716 pages
...vegetable, animal—what a range of works is suggested by these three names! CHS If the number of the creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay, immense,...be the power and wisdom of Him Who formed them all! For (that I may borrow the words of a noble and excellent author) as it argues and manifests more skill... | |
 | Keith Stewart Thomson - Science - 2005 - 348 pages
...purpose and of reason.' Cicero, De Natura Deorum, 77 BC 'If the number of Creation be so exceedingly great, how great nay immense must needs be the Power and Wisdom of him who Form'd them all.' John Ray, The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation, 1691 'What absolute... | |
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creatures be so exceeding great, how great, nay, immense, must needs be the power and wisdom of Him who formed them all !" About 375,000 ' species of animals are now known, and of insects we still know the smaller portion. 2 As knowledge of species of... 