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Page 45
... plants ; the air , the water , the sea , the tides , the dews , and rains ; -that the days , the nights , the sum- mers , and the winters , are just what a wise and power- ful being might have made for man , though no one made these ...
... plants ; the air , the water , the sea , the tides , the dews , and rains ; -that the days , the nights , the sum- mers , and the winters , are just what a wise and power- ful being might have made for man , though no one made these ...
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... plants , animals , are all in their respective series eternal , and consequently necessary , self - existent , and ... plant , or tree , or man , must , therefore , be self - existent and ne- * This was maintained by some of the ancient ...
... plants , animals , are all in their respective series eternal , and consequently necessary , self - existent , and ... plant , or tree , or man , must , therefore , be self - existent and ne- * This was maintained by some of the ancient ...
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... plants grow , that fire burns , that food nourishes , from experience . But will this assist the atheistic scheme ? We have seen the powers of nature , the laws of matter operating in ten thousand instances ; but have we seen the ...
... plants grow , that fire burns , that food nourishes , from experience . But will this assist the atheistic scheme ? We have seen the powers of nature , the laws of matter operating in ten thousand instances ; but have we seen the ...
Page 79
... plants , fishes , birds , beasts , men , were all origina- ted by an act of divine power ; and that human beings were created in the beginning , " male and female . " All the early writings of historians and poets refer to the creation ...
... plants , fishes , birds , beasts , men , were all origina- ted by an act of divine power ; and that human beings were created in the beginning , " male and female . " All the early writings of historians and poets refer to the creation ...
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... " Before the invention of microscopes , the doctrine of equivocal generation , both with regard to animals or to plants of some kinds , was usually received , but this instrument 80 [ LECT . II . ATHEISTIC HYPOTHESES .
... " Before the invention of microscopes , the doctrine of equivocal generation , both with regard to animals or to plants of some kinds , was usually received , but this instrument 80 [ LECT . II . ATHEISTIC HYPOTHESES .
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