The Great Problem: The Higher Ministry of Nature Viewed in the Light of Modern Science, and as an Aid to Advanced Christian PhilosophyG.P. Putnam, 1872 - Всего страниц: 543 |
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... evolution of all things , in- cluding ourselves . " Such is a fanciful but faithful application of some of the current objections to one of the soundest , most available , and most generally intelligible of all arguments , by means of ...
... evolution of all things , in- cluding ourselves . " Such is a fanciful but faithful application of some of the current objections to one of the soundest , most available , and most generally intelligible of all arguments , by means of ...
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... evolution of successive great purposes may mark the stages of eternity . This is strictly consistent with our ordinary conception of one ever - living and all - wise God . What we discover of His character and objects , or of His ...
... evolution of successive great purposes may mark the stages of eternity . This is strictly consistent with our ordinary conception of one ever - living and all - wise God . What we discover of His character and objects , or of His ...
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... evolution of His power . There is not on one side a soli- tary God , and on the other an isolated universe , for the Creator is incessantly incarnated in each of His creatures , and becomes each of them in turn . Under this conception ...
... evolution of His power . There is not on one side a soli- tary God , and on the other an isolated universe , for the Creator is incessantly incarnated in each of His creatures , and becomes each of them in turn . Under this conception ...
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... evolution ? What is Mr. Darwin's theory but an avowed ne- gation of specific creation ? What are his Natu- ral and Sexual Selection but applications , under some modifications , of Spinoza's " Natura natu- rans ? " In his general ...
... evolution ? What is Mr. Darwin's theory but an avowed ne- gation of specific creation ? What are his Natu- ral and Sexual Selection but applications , under some modifications , of Spinoza's " Natura natu- rans ? " In his general ...
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... evolution of one species out of another . Two great causes or laws effect this evolution . ( 1. ) Natural Selection , or the law of the con- servation of the favourable variations of beings and the elimination of injurious deviations ...
... evolution of one species out of another . Two great causes or laws effect this evolution . ( 1. ) Natural Selection , or the law of the con- servation of the favourable variations of beings and the elimination of injurious deviations ...
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Стр. 49 - For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness ; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath shewed it unto them.
Стр. 264 - 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. 510 - True love in this differs from gold and • clay, That to divide is not to take away.
Стр. 264 - It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth...
Стр. 113 - Besides that definite consciousness of which Logic formulates the laws, there is also an indefinite consciousness which cannot be formulated. Besides complete thoughts, and besides the thoughts which though incomplete admit of completion, there are thoughts which it is impossible to complete; and yet which are still real, in the sense that they are normal affections of the intellect.
Стр. 313 - The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable — namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well developed, or nearly as well developed as in man.
Стр. 32 - If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number'} No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Стр. 33 - We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner ho can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.
Стр. 227 - It has been said that I speak of natural selection as an active power or Deity; but who objects to an author speaking of the attraction of gravity as ruling the movements of the planets? Everyone knows what is meant and is implied by such metaphorical expressions; and they are almost necessary for brevity.
Стр. 99 - Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?