A Study of Religion, Its Sources and Contents, Volume 1Clarendon Press, 1888 |
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Page 1 - Religion is a belief in an everlasting God; that is, a Divine mind and will, ruling the Universe, and holding moral relations with mankind.
Page 315 - A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has "gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws.
Page 12 - ... which has become the commonplace of our age, it is well to remember that, so long as they are dreams of future possibility, and not faiths in present...
Page 283 - In short, the shape and structure of the teeth regulate the forms of the condyle, of the shoulder-blade, and of the claws, in the same manner as the equation of a curve regulates all its other properties ; and, as in regard to any particular curve, all its properties may be ascertained by assuming each separate property as the foundation of a particular equation ; in the same manner, a claw, a shoulderblade, a condyle, a leg or...
Page 26 - The rule of right, the symmetries of character, the requirements of perfection, are no provincialisms of this planet : they are known among the stars...
Page 257 - ... at once the place of the sun in the zodiac, his declination from the equator, the day of the month, the length of the day, &c., &c. It would indeed be presumption in him, being unacquainted both with the...
Page 257 - ... placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that since the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries and return through...
Page 294 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming ; but my people know not the ordinance of the LORD.
Page 283 - the claw, the scapula, the condyle, the femur, and all the other bones, taken separately, will give the tooth or one another; and by commencing with any one, he who had a rational conception of the laws of the organic economy could reconstruct the whole animal.
Page 257 - ... free passage to the blood towards the heart, but opposed the passage of the venal blood the contrary way ; he was invited to imagine, that so provident a cause as Nature had not placed so many valves without design ; and no design seemed more...