Man Primeval: Or, The Constitution and Primitive Condition of the Human Being, a Contribution to Theological Science |
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... regarded by many almost in the light of grand discoverers as peculiar benefactors of their species- as possessed of a kind of know- ledge more immediately useful than any religious teaching- and as being justified in silently omitting ...
... regarded by many almost in the light of grand discoverers as peculiar benefactors of their species- as possessed of a kind of know- ledge more immediately useful than any religious teaching- and as being justified in silently omitting ...
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... regarded as a means in order to its attainment . rence . - 2. The appearance of man on the terrestrial stage , therefore , is to be regarded as the great event of the Adamic creation . Geologically speaking , more remarkable physical ...
... regarded as a means in order to its attainment . rence . - 2. The appearance of man on the terrestrial stage , therefore , is to be regarded as the great event of the Adamic creation . Geologically speaking , more remarkable physical ...
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... regarded as indications of the Divine complacency in the graceful , the beautiful , and the sublime . As effects , they pointed to correspondences infinitely greater in their Cause . But , even the manner in which each of these effects ...
... regarded as indications of the Divine complacency in the graceful , the beautiful , and the sublime . As effects , they pointed to correspondences infinitely greater in their Cause . But , even the manner in which each of these effects ...
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... regarded as the sudden production of “ two great lights . " These luminaries , light - dispensers , or light- bearers , the Divine Creator now " made , " in the common sense of appointed , to serve a purpose which they had never ...
... regarded as the sudden production of “ two great lights . " These luminaries , light - dispensers , or light- bearers , the Divine Creator now " made , " in the common sense of appointed , to serve a purpose which they had never ...
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... regarded as equivalent to an inquiry respecting the unity of the species , depends entirely on our definition of a species . If we regard a species as an assemblage of individuals related to each other through descent from a common and ...
... regarded as equivalent to an inquiry respecting the unity of the species , depends entirely on our definition of a species . If we regard a species as an assemblage of individuals related to each other through descent from a common and ...
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Page 82 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things.
Page 294 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on...
Page 60 - We are thus taught the salutary lesson, that the capacity of thought is not to be constituted into the measure of existence ; and are warned from recognizing the domain of our knowledge as necessarily co-extensive with the horizon of our faith. And by a wonderful revelation, we are thus, in the very consciousness of our inability to conceive aught above the relative and finite, inspired with a belief in the existence of something unconditioned beyond the sphere of all comprehensible reality.
Page 241 - Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him, from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his Eternal Power and God-head, so that they are without excuse...
Page 82 - And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things.
Page 17 - And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 14 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 186 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept ; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof: and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And the man said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh : she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Page 186 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 165 - Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.