The Creation and the Early Developments of SocietyG.P. Putnam's sons, 1880 - Всего страниц: 276 |
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... tion of certain simple elements , both light and heat may be produced . But this production was not dependent on man's invention or discovery . Far back in the line of ages , before there was a man upon the earth , aye before there was ...
... tion of certain simple elements , both light and heat may be produced . But this production was not dependent on man's invention or discovery . Far back in the line of ages , before there was a man upon the earth , aye before there was ...
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... tion . The period of dark chaos was long past . The brooding spirit had evoked light from the gradually condensing nebula , and then the blazing star had given place to an opaque body bearing some resemblance to the earth as it exists ...
... tion . The period of dark chaos was long past . The brooding spirit had evoked light from the gradually condensing nebula , and then the blazing star had given place to an opaque body bearing some resemblance to the earth as it exists ...
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... tion of gravity and radiation , the distances be- tween them were increased , and so each planet came to have a space of its own in which to spin its daily round and make its annual revolution . These intervening spaces would seem thus ...
... tion of gravity and radiation , the distances be- tween them were increased , and so each planet came to have a space of its own in which to spin its daily round and make its annual revolution . These intervening spaces would seem thus ...
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... tion , as will appear in the next lecture . 4. Appearance of the sun . If the theory devel- oped in the second lecture be correct , this occurred at a somewhat advanced stage of the work . There was an extended lapse between the ...
... tion , as will appear in the next lecture . 4. Appearance of the sun . If the theory devel- oped in the second lecture be correct , this occurred at a somewhat advanced stage of the work . There was an extended lapse between the ...
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... tion of its term of growth . Familiar examples are the corn , rattan , and palm , the wayside weed and flowering garden plants . These differ from the first class not only in structure and mode of growth , but have distinctly - formed ...
... tion of its term of growth . Familiar examples are the corn , rattan , and palm , the wayside weed and flowering garden plants . These differ from the first class not only in structure and mode of growth , but have distinctly - formed ...
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Стр. 38 - Into one place, and let dry land appear.' Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds; their tops ascend the sky: So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters...
Стр. 86 - And GOD created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and GOD saw that it was good.
Стр. 78 - There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved.
Стр. 78 - To my mind it accords better with what we know of the laws impressed on matter by the Creator, that the production and extinction of the past and present inhabitants of the world should have been due to secondary causes, like those determining the birth and death of the individual.
Стр. 147 - And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering : but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
Стр. 76 - See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began. Natures...
Стр. 100 - To whom the patriarch of mankind replied : O favourable spirit, propitious guest, Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge, and the scale of nature set From centre to circumference, whereon, In contemplation of created things, By steps we may ascend to God.
Стр. 2 - And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes Sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer. Not to the domes where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand, But to that fane, most catholic and solemn , Which God hath planned. To that cathedral, boundless as our wonder, Whose quenchless lamps the sun and moon supply ; Its choir the winds and waves, — its organ thunder, — Its dome the sky.