This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...some of this knowledge could hardly fail to have related to the globe which he inhabited and to the objects which surrounded him. It would have been impossible for the human mind to have embraced the mysteries of creation; or to have followed the history of the moving atoms from their chaotic disorder into ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ...some of this knowledge could hardly fail to have related to the globe which he inhabited and to the objects which surrounded him. It would have been impossible for the human mind to have embraced the mysteries of creation; or to have followed the history of the moving atoms from their chaotic disorder into their arrangement in the visible universe, to have seen dead matter assuming the forms of life and animation, and light and power arising out of death and sleep. The ideas therefore transmitted to or presented by Moses respecting the origin of the world and of man were of the most simple kind, and such as suited the early state of society; but, though general and simple truths, they were divine truths, yet clothed in a language and suited to the ideas of a rude and uninstructed people. And, when I state my satisfaction in finding that they are not contradicted by the refined researches of modern geologists, I do not mean to deduce from them a system of science. I believe that light was the creation of an act of the divine will, but I do not mean to say that the words " Let there be light, and there was light," were orally spoken by the Deity; nor, do I mean to imply, that the modern discoveries respecting light are at all connected with this sublime and magnificent passage. Onu.--Having resided for a long time at Edinburgh and having heard a number of discussions on the theory of Dr. Hutton, or the plutonic theory of geology, and having been exceedingly struck both by its simplicity and beauty, its harmony with existing facts and the proofs afforded to it by some beautiful chemical experiments, I do not feel disposed immediately to renounce it for the views which I have just heard explained; for the principal facts which our new acquaintance...
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Add this copy of Consolations In Travel, Or, The Last Days Of A to cart. $12.87, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2008 by Fork. Press.
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