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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... Conclusions and Theological Inferences . By Rev. Prebendary W. J. IRONS , D.D. MONDAY , February 7. - On " Heathen Cosmogonies compared with the Hebrew . " By Rev. B. W. SAVILE . MONDAY , February 21. - On " Traces of early Phoenician ...
... Conclusions and Theological Inferences . By Rev. Prebendary W. J. IRONS , D.D. MONDAY , February 7. - On " Heathen Cosmogonies compared with the Hebrew . " By Rev. B. W. SAVILE . MONDAY , February 21. - On " Traces of early Phoenician ...
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... conclusion . The Scripture student , with Genesis in his hand , asks only for six or seven thousand years . Can either of the rivals prove his assertions ? lf we find that neither can do this to demonstration , but that each submits ...
... conclusion . The Scripture student , with Genesis in his hand , asks only for six or seven thousand years . Can either of the rivals prove his assertions ? lf we find that neither can do this to demonstration , but that each submits ...
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... conclusion that the early cave period is synchronous with that of the gravels . The cave was the resort of the first hunters . The most remarkable and complete of the Belgian caves are those on the Meuse and its tributaries , described ...
... conclusion that the early cave period is synchronous with that of the gravels . The cave was the resort of the first hunters . The most remarkable and complete of the Belgian caves are those on the Meuse and its tributaries , described ...
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... conclude that these were the characteristics of the human race elsewhere at that time , as it would be for the celebrated Zulu savage to construct a theory of mankind founded on the empty powder - cans and pit- falls in the wake of ...
... conclude that these were the characteristics of the human race elsewhere at that time , as it would be for the celebrated Zulu savage to construct a theory of mankind founded on the empty powder - cans and pit- falls in the wake of ...
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... conclusion by saying that " it is probable that causes more general and powerful than the agency of man , -alterations in climate , variations in the range of many species of animals , vertebrate and invertebrate , and of plants ...
... conclusion by saying that " it is probable that causes more general and powerful than the agency of man , -alterations in climate , variations in the range of many species of animals , vertebrate and invertebrate , and of plants ...
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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...
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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.