Typical Forms and Special Ends in CreationConstable, 1856 - 539 sider |
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... branch of knowledge . We need only mention the law of definite proportions which fixes the composition of every body in nature in determinate pro- portional weights of its ingredients . Indeed , it is a character of all the higher laws ...
... branch of knowledge . We need only mention the law of definite proportions which fixes the composition of every body in nature in determinate pro- portional weights of its ingredients . Indeed , it is a character of all the higher laws ...
Side 23
... branches of the plant are placed round the axis in sets of spirals . The spiral structure is also very evident both in the turbinated and discoid shells of molluscs . Mr. Mosely has shewn , that the size of the whorls , and the distance ...
... branches of the plant are placed round the axis in sets of spirals . The spiral structure is also very evident both in the turbinated and discoid shells of molluscs . Mr. Mosely has shewn , that the size of the whorls , and the distance ...
Side 25
... branch of botanical science which treats of the forms of plants is called morphology , and is now regarded as the 1 See Owen on Homologies of Vertebrate Skeleton , p . 7 ; and Agassiz and Gould's Comparative Physiology , p . 5 , where ...
... branch of botanical science which treats of the forms of plants is called morphology , and is now regarded as the 1 See Owen on Homologies of Vertebrate Skeleton , p . 7 ; and Agassiz and Gould's Comparative Physiology , p . 5 , where ...
Side 38
... branches , leaves , and scales , that they are arranged in a spiral manner round the axis ; but no one looks on this as a simple law ; it is obviously the result of certain methodical disposi- tions . We suspect that most of what we ...
... branches , leaves , and scales , that they are arranged in a spiral manner round the axis ; but no one looks on this as a simple law ; it is obviously the result of certain methodical disposi- tions . We suspect that most of what we ...
Side 51
... branch of investigation we are contemplating not so much a cause , as an end aimed at , by a combination of means , by a concurrence of causes . The science which treats of the relation of means and ends has an unexceptionable name ...
... branch of investigation we are contemplating not so much a cause , as an end aimed at , by a combination of means , by a concurrence of causes . The science which treats of the relation of means and ends has an unexceptionable name ...
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Side 343 - When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment; when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of...
Side 502 - These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens...
Side 343 - Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth. While as yet He had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
Side 507 - The first man Adam was made a living soul, the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit, that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural ; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy : the second man is the Lord from heaven.
Side 446 - No man hath seen God at any time ; the only-begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
Side 500 - My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Side 414 - Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time to come, the earth must again be, unfit for the habitation of man as at present constituted, unless operations have been, or are to be performed, which are impossible under the laws to which the known operations going on at present in the material world are subject.
Side 25 - ANALOGUE." — A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal. " HOMOLOGUE." — The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function f.
Side 330 - The link by which they are connected is of a higher and immaterial nature ; and their connection is to be sought in the view of the Creator himself, whose aim, in forming the earth, in allowing it to undergo the successive changes which Geology has pointed out, and in creating successively all the different types of animals which have passed away, was to introduce Man upon the surface of our globe. Man is the end towards which all the animal creation has tended, from the first appearance of the first...
Side 343 - The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, From the beginning, Or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; When there were no fountains abounding with water.