The Past and Present Life of the Globe: Being a Sketch in Outline of the World's Life-System (Classic Reprint)

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Designed for the general reader, and delivered in part to popular audiences, the style is, perhaps, some what more rhetorical than befits the exactitudes of science but even on this point the Author could not well have done otherwise. His object was to excite rather than satisfy the curiosity. Of his hearers - to impress them with the universality and uniformity of natural law - believing there can be no true notion of Nature or of Nature's requirements while her facts are viewed through the medium of the miraculous. Nor let it be thought that, by recogmsmg In every instance the fixity and unerring operation of Law, we place a wider distance between the Creator and his works, or that any knowledge of this kind has a tend ency to self-sufficiency or irreverence. On the 00n trary, he who knows most of creational slaw, and that the most intimately, stands generally the least in need of the injunction Put off thy shoes from. Off thy feet, for the place whereon thou treadest is holy.

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