 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1854 - 870 páginas
...starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the...learn that it is not only the present condition of the globe which has been suited to the accommodation of myriads of living creatures, but that many former... | |
 | John Pye Smith, John Hamilton Davies - 1854 - 552 páginas
...fluctuations of the animate and inanimate creation should be in perfect harmony with each other, — " <fec. "In whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power." — " To assume... | |
 | 1856 - 948 páginas
...New Phil. Journ., Oct. 1855. the truth of those words of Sir C. Lyell,* that as regards " TIME," " the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken." At all events, it is now impossible to affirm that any stratified deposit is Azoic ; on the contrary,... | |
 | 1856 - 420 páginas
...New Phil. Journ., Oct. 1855. the truth of those words of Sir C. Lyell,* that as regards " TIME," " the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken." At all events, it is now impossible to affirm that any stratified deposit is Azoic ; on the contrary,... | |
 | Samuel Rowles Pattison - 1858 - 190 páginas
...starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines of the universe lie be* Prov. via. 22—31. yond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction we pursue our researches,... | |
 | 1863 - 718 páginas
...nature. His answer is in the words of Lyell : " In whatever direction we pursue our researches, yjiether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear...Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power." The geologists tell us that they have examined the organic remains of miles of the globe's crust, from... | |
 | Edward Garbett - 1864 - 592 páginas
...starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared therefore to find that in time also the confines...intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power To assume that the evidence of the beginning or end of so vast a scheme lies within the reach of our... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1868 - 728 páginas
...kind and degree, as those which at remote ' epochs have worked geological changes.' But,' he adds, ' in whatever ' direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we dis' coyer everywhere the clear proofs of a creative intelligence, and of His ' foresight, wisdom and... | |
 | 1870 - 372 páginas
...saying: "In whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power." — Ib., p. 516. Further extracts are crowded out of this number. Minor Editorials, BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT.—... | |
 | Charles Robert Bree - 1872 - 518 páginas
...which gave a peculiar charm to his former works. Take, for instance, one of his concluding passages : ' But in whatever direction we pursue our researches,...Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power.' s Strangely contrasted with this fine passage is the following hesitating, doubting, uncertain expression... | |
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We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in space, whether we examine the starry heavens, or that world of minute animalcules which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also the confines... 
