The Credentials of Science the Warrant of FaithR. Carter and brothers, 1888 - 324 strani |
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aeriform analogy appear argument from beauty argument from design ARGUMENT OF NATURAL Aristotle assumed astronomical atomic weight beauty bodies called carbonic acid cause chemical chemistry Christianity combine conception conservation of mass constant errors Copernicus deductions definite Descartes determined doctrine earth effect elasticity elementary substances ence equally essential evidence exact experience expressed facts fundamental harmony Hipparchus human hydrogen hypothesis illustrations induction inference influence intellectual intelligence investigation Kepler knowledge known law of gravitation laws of Kepler laws of nature lectures less limitations mass mathematical mathematical analysis ment mental methods mind mode of action modern molecular molecules motion natural theology Newton observation obvious octuple orbit oxygen phenomena philosophy planet present principles problem proportion Ptolemy question reason recognize regard scientific simply spiritual student symbols systems of science temperature thought tion truth undulatory theory vols wholly wonderful word
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Stran 251 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Stran 320 - THE baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast, Has never thought that " this is I :" But as he grows he gathers much, And learns the use of "I," and "me," And finds "I am not what I see, And other than the things I touch.
Stran 317 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels ? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Stran 316 - They say, The solid earth whereon we tread In tracts of fluent heat began, And grew to seeming-random forms, The seeming prey of cyclic storms, Till at the last arose the man...
Stran 39 - Now in four things there are six combinations of two; but the combinations of two opposites, as hot and cold, must be rejected; we have, therefore, four elementary combinations, which agree with the four apparently elementary bodies. Fire is hot and dry; air is hot and wet (for steam is air); water is cold and wet, earth is cold and dry.
Stran 227 - Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? Or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
Stran 73 - Every body continues in a state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by a force impressed upon it.
Stran 38 - Limited and Unlimited, Odd and Even, One and Many, Right and Left, Male and Female, Rest and Motion, Straight and Curved, Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, Square and Oblong . . . Aristotle himself deduced the doctrine of four elements and other dogmas by oppositions of the same kind.
Stran 169 - ... of the truth of the law of natural numbers. The widest range of all the cycles of astronomy and geology combined sink into insignificance before such a period. • Yet shall the engine, true to the prediction of its director, after the lapse of myriads of ages, fulfil its task, and give that one, the...
Stran 161 - Newton's law of gravitation states that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the two masses...