Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... kind of laws , they are in the highest degree various and unlike each other . The intensity and activity of natural influences follow in different cases the most different rules . In some instances they are periodical , increasing and ...
... kind of laws , they are in the highest degree various and unlike each other . The intensity and activity of natural influences follow in different cases the most different rules . In some instances they are periodical , increasing and ...
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... kind were to take place , the working of the botanical world would be thrown into utter disorder , the functions of plants would be entirely deranged , and the whole vegetable kingdom involved in instant decay and rapid extinction ...
... kind were to take place , the working of the botanical world would be thrown into utter disorder , the functions of plants would be entirely deranged , and the whole vegetable kingdom involved in instant decay and rapid extinction ...
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... kind . Just such a portion of time is measured out for the vegetable powers to execute their task , as enables them to do so in the best manner . Now such an adjustment must surely be accepted as a proof of design , exercised in the ...
... kind . Just such a portion of time is measured out for the vegetable powers to execute their task , as enables them to do so in the best manner . Now such an adjustment must surely be accepted as a proof of design , exercised in the ...
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... the first instance , an agreement in the form of the laws that prevail in the organic and in the inorganic world , which appears to us a clear evidence of design in their Author . And the same kind of reply might be LENGTH OF THE YEAR . 25.
... the first instance , an agreement in the form of the laws that prevail in the organic and in the inorganic world , which appears to us a clear evidence of design in their Author . And the same kind of reply might be LENGTH OF THE YEAR . 25.
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William Whewell. Author . And the same kind of reply might be made to any similar objection to our argument . Any suppo- sition that the universe has gradually approximated to that state of harmony among the operations of its different ...
William Whewell. Author . And the same kind of reply might be made to any similar objection to our argument . Any suppo- sition that the universe has gradually approximated to that state of harmony among the operations of its different ...
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