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... and the organic , or the lifeless and the living forms of matter . 6. There have been and are at least three schools of evolutionists , – those who deny the Divine existence , those who ignore it , and those who affirm 6 BIOLOGY .
... and the organic , or the lifeless and the living forms of matter . 6. There have been and are at least three schools of evolutionists , – those who deny the Divine existence , those who ignore it , and those who affirm 6 BIOLOGY .
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Joseph Cook. ence , those who ignore it , and those who affirm it ; or the atheistic , the agnostic , and the theistic . Carl Vogt , Buchner , and Moleschott belong to the athe- istic school of evolutionists ; Huxley and Tyndall and ...
Joseph Cook. ence , those who ignore it , and those who affirm it ; or the atheistic , the agnostic , and the theistic . Carl Vogt , Buchner , and Moleschott belong to the athe- istic school of evolutionists ; Huxley and Tyndall and ...
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... affirms , that , so far as he knows , " there have been , and well can be , only three . " That nature has existed from eternity , and that it arose , according to the Miltonic hypothesis , in six natural days , and that it originated ...
... affirms , that , so far as he knows , " there have been , and well can be , only three . " That nature has existed from eternity , and that it arose , according to the Miltonic hypothesis , in six natural days , and that it originated ...
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... affirm that there is but one substance , matter , itself possessed of two sets of properties , or of a physical side and a spiritual side , making up a double - faced unity . ( BAIN , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER , Mind and Body , 1873 , pp ...
... affirm that there is but one substance , matter , itself possessed of two sets of properties , or of a physical side and a spiritual side , making up a double - faced unity . ( BAIN , PROFESSOR ALEXANDER , Mind and Body , 1873 , pp ...
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... affirms , that inertia , in the strict sense of the word , is a prop- erty of matter . 2. It affirms , and the established definition denies , that matter has power to evolve organization and vitality . 3. It affirms , and the ...
... affirms , that inertia , in the strict sense of the word , is a prop- erty of matter . 2. It affirms , and the established definition denies , that matter has power to evolve organization and vitality . 3. It affirms , and the ...
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Page 288 - Dower'd with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
Page 22 - Speak to Him thou for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet — Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.
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Page 315 - And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain ! For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd, And, last of all, thy greedy self consumed, Then long eternity shall greet our bliss With an individual kiss ; And joy shall overtake us as a flood...
Page 285 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 272 - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity: yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee.
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Page 21 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 35 - IF IT could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.