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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... supposed , -that , according to the calculations of Mr. Croll , this erosion would take place at first only at the rate of 1 foot in 1,000 years , and afterwards some- what more rapidly in the limited area of the valley . The Thames now ...
... supposed , -that , according to the calculations of Mr. Croll , this erosion would take place at first only at the rate of 1 foot in 1,000 years , and afterwards some- what more rapidly in the limited area of the valley . The Thames now ...
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... supposed equally or even more probable . Mr. Dawkins justly infers the migration of the great mammalia in an uninterrupted range from the south of France to Devonshire and Ireland . This , of course , could only have been effected by ...
... supposed equally or even more probable . Mr. Dawkins justly infers the migration of the great mammalia in an uninterrupted range from the south of France to Devonshire and Ireland . This , of course , could only have been effected by ...
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... supposed to have been effected by present causes , then the longest period hitherto assigned is not too long . But if all are agreed that other causes , if similar to the present , yet worked far more powerfully , then almost any time ...
... supposed to have been effected by present causes , then the longest period hitherto assigned is not too long . But if all are agreed that other causes , if similar to the present , yet worked far more powerfully , then almost any time ...
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... supposed to belong to the first flint age , and below that a much higher form of civilization ; if this were clearly established , it seems to me that it would have a most important bearing on this question . Mr. PATTISON . — I have not ...
... supposed to belong to the first flint age , and below that a much higher form of civilization ; if this were clearly established , it seems to me that it would have a most important bearing on this question . Mr. PATTISON . — I have not ...
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... supposed to belong to the first flint age , and below that a much higher form of civilization ; if this were clearly established , it seems to me that it would have a most important bearing on this question . Mr. PATTISON . — I have not ...
... supposed to belong to the first flint age , and below that a much higher form of civilization ; if this were clearly established , it seems to me that it would have a most important bearing on this question . Mr. PATTISON . — I have not ...
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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.