Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural TheologyH.G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, 1862 - 328 pages |
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... things and relations of things which suggest to most minds the belief of a creating and presiding Intelligence . And this impression , which arises with the most vague and superficial consideration of the objects by which we are ...
... things and relations of things which suggest to most minds the belief of a creating and presiding Intelligence . And this impression , which arises with the most vague and superficial consideration of the objects by which we are ...
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... things , by the sort of control of which persons and things are respectively susceptible ; so that the metaphor is very simple ; but it is proper for us to recollect that it is a metaphor , in order that we may clearly apprehend what is ...
... things , by the sort of control of which persons and things are respectively susceptible ; so that the metaphor is very simple ; but it is proper for us to recollect that it is a metaphor , in order that we may clearly apprehend what is ...
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William Whewell. measure . all things are ordered by number and weight and " God , " as was said by the ancients , " works by geometry : " the legislation of the material universe is necessarily delivered in the language of mathematics ...
William Whewell. measure . all things are ordered by number and weight and " God , " as was said by the ancients , " works by geometry : " the legislation of the material universe is necessarily delivered in the language of mathematics ...
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... province of nature , between the qualities of brute matter and the constitution of living things , between the tendency to derangement and the conservative influences by which such a tendency is ADAPTATION OF LAWS . 11.
... province of nature , between the qualities of brute matter and the constitution of living things , between the tendency to derangement and the conservative influences by which such a tendency is ADAPTATION OF LAWS . 11.
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... things , or the organisation of life to be accommodated to the previously established laws of nature . But we are not forced upon any such mode of conception , or upon any decision between such с suppositions ; since , for the purpose ...
... things , or the organisation of life to be accommodated to the previously established laws of nature . But we are not forced upon any such mode of conception , or upon any decision between such с suppositions ; since , for the purpose ...
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action adaptation adjusted animals appear arrangements astronomers atmosphere bodies Bohn's CHAP character climate conceive condition connexion consequences consider constitution contemplation contrivance creation Creator deductive reasoning degree depend discovery distance Divine earth Edition effects Engravings existence fact faculties final causes fluid force friction globe gravity heat History Illustrations impression intelligence Jupiter kind knowledge Laplace laws of motion laws of nature light luminiferous ether magnitude manner mass material world mathematical matter means mechanical mechanical philosophy mind mode moisture moral natural philosophy Natural Theology Nebular Hypothesis Newton objects observe operation orbit organic organised P. L. SIMMONDS particles peculiar period perpetually phenomena philosophers physical planets portion Portrait present principles produced properties purpose quantity racter reason relations result revolution revolving solar system STANDARD LIBRARY stars suppose surface temperature tendency things tion trace Translated truths universe vapour vegetable velocity vibrations vols WILLIAM HAZLITT WILLIAM WHEWELL
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