The Unseen Universe, Or Physical Speculations on a Future StateCosimo, Inc., 2007 M04 1 - 288 páginas Originally published anonymously, The Unseen Universe is a bold attempt to bring scientific and religious readers together in harmony. Themselves both accomplished scientists, Steward and Tait hoped to calm those Christians who had come to see science as heretical and show scientists how they could reconcile the advances in their field with a belief in God and the immortality of the soul. In this quest, they ask readers to consider the principle of Continuity, in which all the mechanics in nature have a cause that is also found in nature. And in following this chain of continuity backward, they inevitably come upon a prime mover, for if the universe is not eternal, then it must have been started, and this is where science and religion can share the same ground. Readers of science and philosophy will be called to ponder the nature of the universe for themselves. Scottish physicist BALFOUR STEWART (1828-1887) studied and wrote about the nature of radiation, meteorology, and magnetism. Scottish physicist PETER GUTHRIE TAIT (1831-1901) is most famous for writing, with Lord Kelvin, the groundbreaking physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867). |
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Página xxvi
... Heaven and Hell , It inculcates immortality , Double source of corruption , Reformation of Buddha , Meaning of Nirvana , Observations on ancient beliefs , Belief of the Disciples of Christ— The resurrection of Christ , Future state ...
... Heaven and Hell , It inculcates immortality , Double source of corruption , Reformation of Buddha , Meaning of Nirvana , Observations on ancient beliefs , Belief of the Disciples of Christ— The resurrection of Christ , Future state ...
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... Heaven , Two ideas in all Christian hymns , Possible glimpse into the conditions of the future life , Darker side of the future , Plato on the markings of the soul , Article Page 253 257 254 258 255 259 * 256-257 260 258 262 259 263 ...
... Heaven , Two ideas in all Christian hymns , Possible glimpse into the conditions of the future life , Darker side of the future , Plato on the markings of the soul , Article Page 253 257 254 258 255 259 * 256-257 260 258 262 259 263 ...
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... heaven and earth , the conqueror of all . .. Another poet says . of another god , Varuna , " Thou art lord of all , of heaven and earth ; thou art the king of all , of those who are gods , and of those who are men . " .. This surely ...
... heaven and earth , the conqueror of all . .. Another poet says . of another god , Varuna , " Thou art lord of all , of heaven and earth ; thou art the king of all , of those who are gods , and of those who are men . " .. This surely ...
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... heaven ; he goes to the gods . we find this prayer addressed to Soma : - • Again ' Where there is eternal light , in the world where the sun is placed , in that immortal , imperishable world place me , O Soma ! ' Where King Vaivasvata ...
... heaven ; he goes to the gods . we find this prayer addressed to Soma : - • Again ' Where there is eternal light , in the world where the sun is placed , in that immortal , imperishable world place me , O Soma ! ' Where King Vaivasvata ...
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... heaven of the blessed , be admitted to the family of Mi - le , and serve the Buddha of the future who is full of kindness and affection . When I descend again upon earth , to pass through other forms of existence , I desire at every new ...
... heaven of the blessed , be admitted to the family of Mi - le , and serve the Buddha of the future who is full of kindness and affection . When I descend again upon earth , to pass through other forms of existence , I desire at every new ...
Contenido
Relative quantity of matter associated with energy 137138 | 137 |
The Ethereal medium | 143 |
Universal gravitation | 144 |
Remarks on the speculations of this chapter 149150 | 149 |
Chemical development | 155 |
Life development | 165 |
Position of life in the present physical universe 177 | 177 |
Delicacy of construction derived from the suns rays 183 | 183 |
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Theological | 52 |
Spread of the Christian religion | 54 |
Points of similarity between this school and Christians | 60 |
Modern spiritualists | 67 |
Materialistic position described | 73 |
Essential requisites for continued existence | 78 |
Application of this principle to Christian miracles | 90 |
Use and Abuse of the Term Force 97 | 97 |
CHAPTER III | 99 |
Transformability of energy constitutes its use 104 | 104 |
Degradation of energy 爨 114 | 114 |
CHAPTER IV | 129 |
The same idea pervades the Old Testament 189 | 189 |
Explanation of this 195 | 195 |
Memory of the universe 196197 | 205 |
Quasiscientific | 210 |
Christian theory of the development of the universe 221227 | 221 |
Meaning of conservation | 232 |
Life comes from the Unseen Universe | 233 |
Meteoric hypothesis implies Discontinuity | 242 |
Christ | 248 |
XXV | 251 |
ceptions of the Divine essence 253 | 253 |
Plato on the markings of the soul 259 | 259 |
The scientific conclusion is directly against the opponents | 271 |
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Página 23 - And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man: yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
Página 228 - When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things...
Página 63 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 33 - And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness, as the stars for ever and ever.
Página 38 - Where the wallowing monster spouted his foam-fountains in the sea. Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind. For they lie beside their nectar, and the bolts are hurl'd Far below them in the valleys, and the clouds are lightly curl'd Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world...