Religion and Chemistry: A Re-statement of an Old ArgumentC. Scribner's sons, 1864 - 331 páginas |
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Religion and Chemistry: A Re-statement of an Old Argument Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) Vista completa - 1880 |
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Página 72 - God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof. For he looketh to the ends of the earth, and seeth under the whole heaven ; To make the weight for the winds, and he weigheth the waters by measure.
Página 236 - Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest...
Página 106 - That each, who seems a separate whole, Should move his rounds, and fusing all The skirts of self again, should fall Remerging in the general Soul, Is faith as vague as all unsweet: Eternal form shall still divide The eternal soul from all beside; And I shall know him when we meet...
Página 72 - When he made a decree for the rain, And a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; He prepared it, yea, and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; And to depart from evil is understanding.
Página 71 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Página 31 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Página 260 - ... out of next-to-nothing. Grant us, — they seem to say, — any tiniest granule of power, so close upon zero that it is not worth begrudging ; allow it some trifling tendency to infinitesimal increment ; and we will show you how this little stock became the Kosmos, without ever taking a step worth thinking of, much less constituting a case for design. The argument is a mere appeal to an incompetency...
Página 5 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard.
Página 15 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest...
Página 232 - Prometheus was an expression of a philosophical truth, which had not escaped the penetration of the ancients. Without light, nature were without life and without soul ; a beneficent God, in shedding light over creation, strewed the surface of the earth with organization, with sensation, and with thought.