 We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines...  Great Issues - Page 195by Robert Forman Horton - 1909 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute anioialcula which is ievealed to vs by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to...of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. i ' >' ' in whatever direition we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 562 pages
...into it of organic beings. In vain do we aspire to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world...microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in fc'mealso, the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 420 pages
...introduction into it of organic beings. We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world...researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power. As... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1834 - 420 pages
...introduction into it of organic beings. We aspire in, vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world...researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power. As... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...of an Infinite and Eternal Being.* Yet this same writer in the preceding paragraph had said, that " in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom and power,"f... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 516 pages
...of an Infinite and Eternal Being.* Yet this same writer in the preceding paragraph had said, that " in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom and power,"f... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 566 pages
...fluctuations of the animate and inanimate creation should be in perfect harmony with each other,—" &c. " In whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power."— "... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1843 - 576 pages
...fluctuations of the animate and inanimate creation should be in perfect harmony with each other,—" &c. " In whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where clear proofs of a Creative Int?lligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power." —... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1847 - 866 pages
...introduction into it of organic beings. We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world...us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to^find that in time also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever... | |
 | Antoine Claude Gabriel Jobert - Geology - 1847 - 206 pages
...support of the probability of a beginning remain unsheken, &c." Principles, Vol. III. pp. 404, 405. the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken." However, because we do not find the limit of the works of creation which lie BEYOND our reach in space,... | |
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