The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedT. Constable & Company, 1857 - 500 pages |
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Page vii
... questions which the old theology of Scotland has been asking for the last few years of the newest of the sciences . Will you pardon me the liberty I take in dedicating it to you ? In compliance with the peculiar demand of the time ...
... questions which the old theology of Scotland has been asking for the last few years of the newest of the sciences . Will you pardon me the liberty I take in dedicating it to you ? In compliance with the peculiar demand of the time ...
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... question of right , and that whatever has been done by Him who rendereth no account to man of his matters , He had in all ages , and in all places , an unchallengeable right to do . The oldest known reptiles appear just a little before ...
... question of right , and that whatever has been done by Him who rendereth no account to man of his matters , He had in all ages , and in all places , an unchallengeable right to do . The oldest known reptiles appear just a little before ...
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... question of their identity with the indigenous breeds somewhat obscure . Cuvier was , however , un- able to detect any difference between the skeleton of a fossil horse contemporary with the elephant , and that of our domestic breed ; a ...
... question of their identity with the indigenous breeds somewhat obscure . Cuvier was , however , un- able to detect any difference between the skeleton of a fossil horse contemporary with the elephant , and that of our domestic breed ; a ...
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... its progress which forms a meet introduction in Holy Writ to the history of the human family . The first question to which we must address ourselves in any such in- quiry is of course a very obvious one , - 122 THE TWO RECORDS ,
... its progress which forms a meet introduction in Holy Writ to the history of the human family . The first question to which we must address ourselves in any such in- quiry is of course a very obvious one , - 122 THE TWO RECORDS ,
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... question as a philological one , and simply holding with Cuvier , Parkinson , and Silli- man , that each of the six days of the Mosaic narrative in the first chapter were what is assuredly meant by the day referred to in the second ...
... question as a philological one , and simply holding with Cuvier , Parkinson , and Silli- man , that each of the six days of the Mosaic narrative in the first chapter were what is assuredly meant by the day referred to in the second ...
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The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ... Hugh Miller No preview available - 2016 |
The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two ... Hugh Miller No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 5 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 211 - Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written; Which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
Page 252 - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 215 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Page 206 - Annual for me, the grape, the rose renew The juice nectareous, and the balmy dew; For me, the mine a thousand treasures brings; For me, health gushes from a thousand springs; Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My foot-stool earth, my canopy the skies.
Page 112 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 113 - No more? A monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tare each other in their slime, Were mellow music match'd with him. O life as futile, then, as frail! O for thy voice to soothe and bless! What hope of answer, or redress? Behind the veil, behind the veil.
Page 247 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 211 - The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature ; and their connection is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce man upon the surface of our globe. MAN is THE END TOWARDS WHICH ALL THE ANIMAL CREATION HAS TENDED FROM THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE FIRST...
Page 178 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...