The Christian Philosopher: A Collection of the Best Discoveries in Nature, with Religious ImprovementsThe prominent Puritan clergyman Cotton Mather published The Christian Philosopher in 1721. This work was intended to demonstrate the harmony between science and religion. Mather surveyed all the known sciences from astronomy and physics to human anatomy. He presented evidence that both celestial and terrestrial phenomena imply an intelligent designer. |
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... feveral parts of them . Where- fore the plentiful provifion of this Fluid fupplied to all Parts of the Earth , is by ... feveral Seafons affords a different face of things , the fame does the Heat of feveral Climates . The hotter ...
... feveral parts of them . Where- fore the plentiful provifion of this Fluid fupplied to all Parts of the Earth , is by ... feveral Seafons affords a different face of things , the fame does the Heat of feveral Climates . The hotter ...
Page 239
... feveral Parts of the Object , from whence they proceed , lie in ftrait Lines ( Point for Point ) drawn thro the Pupil , to the feveral Points of the Sensory , where they terminate , and which they prefs upon : Whereupon the Soul must ...
... feveral Parts of the Object , from whence they proceed , lie in ftrait Lines ( Point for Point ) drawn thro the Pupil , to the feveral Points of the Sensory , where they terminate , and which they prefs upon : Whereupon the Soul must ...
Page 293
... feveral Orders of animated Body before we come to < Intellect , fo it muft needs be that there are feveral Orders of imbodied Intellect before we come to pure · Mind . ' It is likely that the Transition from Human to per- fect MIND is ...
... feveral Orders of animated Body before we come to < Intellect , fo it muft needs be that there are feveral Orders of imbodied Intellect before we come to pure · Mind . ' It is likely that the Transition from Human to per- fect MIND is ...
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