 It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed,...  Analysis of Darwin, Huxley and Lyell, Being a Critical Examination of the ... - Page 30by Henry A. DuBois - 1866 - 94 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1861 - 470 pages
...showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of gravity, was attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural and iuferentially of revealed religion." A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, fifteen lines... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1864 - 472 pages
...showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of gravity, was attacked by Leibnitz,...of natural and inferentially of revealed religion." A celebrated author and divine, &c., &c. Page 420, fifteen lines from top, after "deceitful guide,"... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1866 - 668 pages
...that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, " as subversive of natural and inferentially of revealed religion." A celebrated author and divine has written to me that " he has gradually learnt to see that it is just... | |
 | 1869 - 844 pages
...gravity, which preserves among the worlds of space that grand order which we have learnt to admire, was attacked by Leibnitz, " as subversive of natural, and, inferentially, of revealed religion." None of the authors under review appear to wish to shut out God from the universe. Their facts and... | |
 | 1866 - 694 pages
...and philosophical point of view. We have refrained from saying anything of its bearing on Revelation. We do not think it wise to attack with the sword of...it should shock the religious feelings of any one ! Ttffe reason is very obvious to others, if not to him. If this hypothesis be true, then is the Bible... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - 504 pages
...remember that the discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of tho attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion." A celebrated author and divine bos written to me that " he has gradually " learnt to see that it is... | |
 | Rudolf Schmid - Evolution - 1882 - 428 pages
...that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz ' as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.' A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he ' has gradually learned to see that it is... | |
 | John Fordyce - Faith - 1883 - 490 pages
...that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed religion.' Againhewrites : 'Authors of the highest eminence seem to be fully satisfied with the view that each... | |
 | Edward Woodall - Naturalists - 1884 - 100 pages
...that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, ' as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.' A celebrated author and d;vine has written to me that ' he has gradually learnt to see that it is just... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Evolution - 1884 - 396 pages
...that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of the attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, "as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion." A celebrated author and divine has written to me that "he has gradually learned to see that it is just... | |
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