 | Missions - 1839 - 702 pages
...also the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. i ' >' ' in whatever direition we pursue our researches, whether in time or space,...discover every where the clear proofs of a Creative IntMigrtice, and of His loresight, wisdom, and power. " As Geologists, we learn that it is not only... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 580 pages
...origrin or the evidences of the first introduction into it of organic beings. In vain do we aspire to assign limits to the works of creation in space,...researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a creative intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power. "... | |
 | 918 pages
...comprehension in space and the extent in time of the works " of an Infinite and Eternal Being ; — the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power;"— and that " the aggregate of Geological epochs, however numerous, must constitute a mere moment of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1833 - 570 pages
...origin, or the evidences of the first introduction into it of organic beings. In vain do we aspire to assign limits to the works of creation in space,...researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power. As... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 580 pages
...starry heavens, or that world of minute animalculre which i? revealed to us by the microscope. We arc prepared, therefore, to find that in time, also, the...researches, whether in time or space, we discover everywhere the clear proofs of a creative intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power. "... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...of an Infinite and Eternal Being.* Yet this same writer in the preceding paragraph had said, that " in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether...Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom and power,"f and thus we see that he was not a believer in the earth's eternity. Again, when we maintain... | |
 | Theology - 1835 - 516 pages
...of an Infinite and Eternal Being.* Yet this same writer in the preceding paragraph had said, that " in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether...Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom and power,"f and thus we see that he was not a believer in the earth's eternity. Again, when we maintain... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 582 pages
...analogy ; but, although it may strengthen our conviction, that the present system of change has not gone on from eternity, it cannot warrant us in presuming...Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power. creatures, but that many former states also have been adapted to the organization and habits of prior... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1840 - 566 pages
...fluctuations of the animate and inanimate creation should be in perfect harmony with each other,—" &c. " In whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power."— " To assume that... | |
 | John Pye Smith - Bible and geology - 1843 - 576 pages
...fluctuations of the animate and inanimate creation should be in perfect harmony with each other,—" &c. " In whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover every where clear proofs of a Creative Int?lligence, and of his foresight, wisdom, and power." — " To assume... | |
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... which is revealed to us by the microscope. We are prepared, therefore, to find that in time also, the confines of the universe lie beyond the reach of mortal ken. But in whatever direction we pursue our researches, whether in time or space, we discover... 
