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... limited by time or space ; truth involved in all actual existence , and containing the fulness of inexhaustible possibilities . It is , I shall conclude by adding , a kind of progress which underlies and determines all other progress ...
... limited by time or space ; truth involved in all actual existence , and containing the fulness of inexhaustible possibilities . It is , I shall conclude by adding , a kind of progress which underlies and determines all other progress ...
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... limited , but surely we ought not so to concentrate our attention on any such points or instants as to be unable to take in a general impression of the immeasurable power displayed throughout the realms of space and the ages of time ...
... limited , but surely we ought not so to concentrate our attention on any such points or instants as to be unable to take in a general impression of the immeasurable power displayed throughout the realms of space and the ages of time ...
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... limited , and that He acts in the manner to which man as a finite creature is restricted . A deist of this class thinks of God as outside of and away from the universe ; he thinks of the uni- verse as a mechanism which God has contrived ...
... limited , and that He acts in the manner to which man as a finite creature is restricted . A deist of this class thinks of God as outside of and away from the universe ; he thinks of the uni- verse as a mechanism which God has contrived ...
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... limited . The adjustments and harmonies of the universe , as we know it , indicate a depth and richness of wisdom in its Author which far pass our comprehension ; and the universe which we know is probably less in comparison with the ...
... limited . The adjustments and harmonies of the universe , as we know it , indicate a depth and richness of wisdom in its Author which far pass our comprehension ; and the universe which we know is probably less in comparison with the ...
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... limited power , how much more so is the careful and skilful choice of contrivances ? Can any wis- dom be shown in the selection of means when the means have no efficacy but what is given them by the will of him who employs them , and ...
... limited power , how much more so is the careful and skilful choice of contrivances ? Can any wis- dom be shown in the selection of means when the means have no efficacy but what is given them by the will of him who employs them , and ...
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Page 176 - When he established the clouds above : When he strengthened the fountains of the deep : When he gave to the sea his decree, That the waters should not pass his commandment: When he appointed the foundations of the earth : 235 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him : And I was daily his delight, Rejoicing always before him ; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth ; And my delights were with the sons of men.
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