 ... an end; for a process of degradation cannot be eternal. If we could view the universe as a candle not lit, then it is perhaps conceivable to regard it as having been always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 3411880Full view - About this book
 | Balfour Stewart - Force and energy - 1874 - 274 pages
...always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...end in which the whole universe will be one equally hsated inert mass, and from which everything like life or motion or beauty will have utterly gone away.... | |
 | Christianity - 1874 - 602 pages
...always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...beginning in which the particles of matter were in a diffused chaotic state, but endowed with the power of gravitation, and we are led to look to an end... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Force and energy - 1874 - 264 pages
...always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...led to look to a beginning in which the particles _of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the power of gravitation, and we are led... | |
 | England - 1874 - 898 pages
...always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...•will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning when the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the power of gravitation... | |
 | Science - 1875 - 360 pages
...always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...will cease to burn. We are led to look to a beginning when the particles of matter were in a diffuse chaotic state, but endowed with the power of gravitation... | |
 | Balfour Stewart - Force and energy - 1876 - 266 pages
...always in existence ; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...and we are led to look to an end in which the whole ijniverse will be one equally heated inert mass, and from which everything like life or motion or beauty... | |
 | Thomas Ragg - 1877 - 468 pages
...that has been lit we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity, and a time will come when it will cease to burn. "We are...endowed with the power of gravitation ; and we are to look to an end, in which the whole universe will be one equally heated inert mass, and from which... | |
 | Theology - 1876 - 668 pages
...that had a beginning and must have an end ; for a process of degradation cannot be eternal." * * * " We are led to look to a beginning in which the particles...which the whole universe will be one equally heated mass, and from which everything like life or motion or beauty will have utterly gone away."* . Not... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1878 - 564 pages
...degradation cannot be eternal. If we regard it as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...that a time will come when it will cease to burn." Sir W. Thomson writes thus in his joint treatise, with Professor Tait, on Natural Philosophy. " It... | |
 | Borden Parker Bowne - Theism - 1879 - 464 pages
...always been in existence; but if we regard it rather as a candle that has been lit, we become absolutely certain that it cannot have been burning from eternity,...that a time will come when it will cease to burn." * "The very fact, therefore, that the large masses of the visible universe are of finite size, is sufficient... | |
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