Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical Society of Great Britain, Volume 10Victoria Institute., 1877 - Religion and science |
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... atomic philosophy as now held . One statement in that philosophy is that nothing that exists can be destroyed . " " The only evidence for this being , that however we may change the form of any compound , we do not destroy the materials ...
... atomic philosophy as now held . One statement in that philosophy is that nothing that exists can be destroyed . " " The only evidence for this being , that however we may change the form of any compound , we do not destroy the materials ...
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... atomic hypothesis , while a most valuable one for working purposes , and very useful to the chemist , is not sufficiently ... atoms to their Maker , that we must abandon all conception of creative acts . Here then is a distinct * The New ...
... atomic hypothesis , while a most valuable one for working purposes , and very useful to the chemist , is not sufficiently ... atoms to their Maker , that we must abandon all conception of creative acts . Here then is a distinct * The New ...
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hypothesis , the atomic or molecular , to account for the phe- nomena of nature , to explain the facts of observation and experience . We are pointed to the atom as the one unity , or resting - place for thought . But the very man who ...
hypothesis , the atomic or molecular , to account for the phe- nomena of nature , to explain the facts of observation and experience . We are pointed to the atom as the one unity , or resting - place for thought . But the very man who ...
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... atomic theory , " In order to flourish and produce fruit , science must be free - free to experi- ment and observe , without let or hindrance ; free to draw the conclusions which may flow from such experiments or observa- tions ; free ...
... atomic theory , " In order to flourish and produce fruit , science must be free - free to experi- ment and observe , without let or hindrance ; free to draw the conclusions which may flow from such experiments or observa- tions ; free ...
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... atomic theory was adapted to anything else but to mislead . The atomic theory of the old Greeks had about as much relation to the theories of modern science as Tenterden Steeple had to Goodwin Sands ( according to Kentish traditions ) ...
... atomic theory was adapted to anything else but to mislead . The atomic theory of the old Greeks had about as much relation to the theories of modern science as Tenterden Steeple had to Goodwin Sands ( according to Kentish traditions ) ...
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Page 51 - And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man : All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 209 - But now, O Lord, thou art our father : we are the clay, and thou our potter ; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Page 224 - Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him.
Page 51 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month : in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Page 49 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Page 220 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 223 - And God blessed them, saying : Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 51 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Page 305 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: And the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
Page 143 - Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules out of which these systems are built — the foundation-stones of the material universe — remain unbroken and unworn.