The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and RevealedGould and Lincoln, 1857 - 502 Seiten |
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Seite 401 - the earth, while the earth itself remains at rest in the midst. "first," he remarks, " the sun is said in Scripture to move in the heavens, and to rise and set. 'The sun is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.'
Seite 247 - In thy book," says the Psalmist, " all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned when as yet there was none of them." And here is natural science, by the voice of two of its most distinguished professors, saying exactly the same thing. Of the earliest known vertebrates, — the
Seite 129 - us Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Seite 385 - ho made the world? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means, Formed for his use, and ready at his will?" The revelation to Noah, which warned him of a coming Flood, and taught him how to prepare for it, was evidently
Seite 292 - poem; which, if vivified by the genius of some of the higher masters of the lyre, broad of faculty, and at once great poets and great men, might prove one precious boon more to the world, suited, conformably to the special demands of these latter times, to "assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man.
Seite 243 - as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall ; Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.' Such, assuredly, was not that God of the New Testament whom the Saviour of mankind revealed to his disciples as caring for all his creatures of the dust, but as caring most for the highest of all. " Are not two sparrows,
Seite 151 - monster then, a dream, A discord. Dragons of the prime, That tore each other in their slime, Were mellow music matched with him. O, life, as futile then as frail, — 0 for thy voice to soothe and bless 1 What hope of answer or redress, Behind the
Seite 150 - but mean the breath. I know no more.' And he, — shall he, Man, her last work, who seemed so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who rolled the psalm to wintry
Seite 246 - ZOOLOGY : touching the Structure, Development, Distribution, and Natural Arrangement of the Races of Animals, living and extinct. With numerous Illustrations. For the Use of Schools and Colleges. Part I., " Comparative Physiology.
Seite 281 - canseth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man, and wine that maketh glad the