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. 1875 Excerpt: ...whether near, or far off, or even infinitely remote. It names them from such unchanging outlying appearances. Thus there is no pretense of being near the mysterious ultimate causation--such a pretense as science sometimes makes, though still "far wide," still holding on to something they call a cause, but which the ...
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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. 1875 Excerpt: ...whether near, or far off, or even infinitely remote. It names them from such unchanging outlying appearances. Thus there is no pretense of being near the mysterious ultimate causation--such a pretense as science sometimes makes, though still "far wide," still holding on to something they call a cause, but which the next increase of the magnifying power turns again into a phenomenon--an appearance of something farther back, and still farther back, that appears through it. Thus do they ever verify the deep idea of inspiration, that "the things which are seen are made from things unseen," from causalities that lie, and must for ever lie, beyond the reach of sense, or any science founded on sense. From this never-finished process of turning supposed causalities into new appearances, the dialect of science must be ever becoming obsolete. But the Scripture never commits itself to any mode of speech that must change with changing knowledge of these nearer phenomena; and this is a striking difference between the Bible and other books called sacred. The Koran fails here. It evi dently affects sometimes a scientific language, or supposed to be such; as when Mohammed, or his commentators, give the exact number of the heavens, and even the distances, in miles, between them. Something of the same kind may be traced in the oldest books of all other religions, such as the Hindoo, the Persian, and the Chinese. There are appearances of attempts, however crude, at something like scientific theory--feeble efforts at a sort of philosophising, or the utterance of something seemingly above the common mind, an assumption of some esoteric wisdom, or a pretentious teaching style as of persons initiated into mysteries above the ordinary intelligence. There is not...
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Add this copy of "the Light By Which We See Light": Or, Nature and the to cart. $59.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by Palala Press.
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