A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With Reflections on Atheistical Philosophy, Now Exemplified in France, Volume 1T. Becket, 1794 - Eighteenth century |
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... contrary to our own way of thinking , can there be any body of spiri- tual teachers , who merit nothing but ridicule and censure ? Besides their unbounded claims to temporal as well as spiritual dominion , and their abject and ...
... contrary to our own way of thinking , can there be any body of spiri- tual teachers , who merit nothing but ridicule and censure ? Besides their unbounded claims to temporal as well as spiritual dominion , and their abject and ...
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... contrary conduct , of which he has been erro- neously accused , would have been as ridiculous in him , as if he had undertaken to shew how fire burns by algebra ; to explain the nature and ope- ration of the sun by trigonometry ; or to ...
... contrary conduct , of which he has been erro- neously accused , would have been as ridiculous in him , as if he had undertaken to shew how fire burns by algebra ; to explain the nature and ope- ration of the sun by trigonometry ; or to ...
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... , where shells are to be found in even still greater profusion ? The system of Le Cat , as must be the fate of every system of a creation , was proved to be contrary contrary to reason and to scripture . The moon and 48 LETTER VII .
... , where shells are to be found in even still greater profusion ? The system of Le Cat , as must be the fate of every system of a creation , was proved to be contrary contrary to reason and to scripture . The moon and 48 LETTER VII .
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... contrary to reason and to scripture . The moon and fishes , said his opponents , were , according to him , to have existed before the separation of the waters from the earth . But , it was the third day on which God separated the waters ...
... contrary to reason and to scripture . The moon and fishes , said his opponents , were , according to him , to have existed before the separation of the waters from the earth . But , it was the third day on which God separated the waters ...
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... contrary , calcareous sub- stances are in general found where flints are em- bedded ; which is of itself an unequivocal and satisfactory confirmation of their formation in water . Madrepores , and fossil shells , with other calcareous ...
... contrary , calcareous sub- stances are in general found where flints are em- bedded ; which is of itself an unequivocal and satisfactory confirmation of their formation in water . Madrepores , and fossil shells , with other calcareous ...
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Page 50 - And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.
Page 47 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Page 108 - While the particles continue entire, they may compose bodies of one and the same nature and texture in all ages ; but should they wear away or break in pieces, the nature of things depending on them would be changed.
Page 107 - Space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them ; and that these primitive Particles being Solids, are incomparably harder than any porous Bodies compounded of them ; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces ; no ordinary Power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first Creation.
Page 108 - But should they wear away, or break in pieces, the Nature of Things depending on them, would be changed. Water and Earth, composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire 817 Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Page 107 - It seems probable to me that God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable moveable particles ; of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard, as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself...
Page 114 - Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues, or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting, and inflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great Part of the Phenomena of Nature?
Page 108 - Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles in the Beginning. And therefore, that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Page 313 - But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances...
Page 115 - Forms of Things, but as general Laws of Nature, by which the Things themselves are form'd; their Truth appearing to us by Phaenomena, though their Causes be not yet discover'd.