The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology |
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... illustrated and prefaced from the resources of a period of advanced knowledge ; and the various other publications to which these directly or indi- rectly have given rise , have together furnished a body of facts and arguments in which ...
... illustrated and prefaced from the resources of a period of advanced knowledge ; and the various other publications to which these directly or indi- rectly have given rise , have together furnished a body of facts and arguments in which ...
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... illustrated in it , I shall have occasion to refer particularly in the course of the ensuing pages ; at present , I merely wish to express my conviction of its general value , especially as suggesting rich materials for thought , to ...
... illustrated in it , I shall have occasion to refer particularly in the course of the ensuing pages ; at present , I merely wish to express my conviction of its general value , especially as suggesting rich materials for thought , to ...
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... . + The etymology is illustrated by the expression of Crellius : " Res hujus universi omnes finis gratiá existere . " - De Deo et ejus Attrib . c . iii . first instance , we find , as mere matter of 120 RELATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE.
... . + The etymology is illustrated by the expression of Crellius : " Res hujus universi omnes finis gratiá existere . " - De Deo et ejus Attrib . c . iii . first instance , we find , as mere matter of 120 RELATION OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE.
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... illustrated his ideas still fur- ther by the remark , that when it is stated , for example , that fishes have certain locomotive powers because they are destined to live in the water , " by the same reasoning you would say of a man who ...
... illustrated his ideas still fur- ther by the remark , that when it is stated , for example , that fishes have certain locomotive powers because they are destined to live in the water , " by the same reasoning you would say of a man who ...
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... illustrated in the following masterly passage of Laplace : - " L'induction , l'analogie , des hypotheses fondées sur les fait et rectifiées sans cesse par de nouvelles observations , un tact heureux donné par la nature et fortifié par ...
... illustrated in the following masterly passage of Laplace : - " L'induction , l'analogie , des hypotheses fondées sur les fait et rectifiées sans cesse par de nouvelles observations , un tact heureux donné par la nature et fortifié par ...
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