The Unseen Universe, Or, Physical Speculations on a Future StateMacmillan, 1876 - 271 pages |
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Page 261 - Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife, And let me languish into life ! Hark ! they whisper—angels say, " Sister spirit, come away !" What is this absorbs me quite ; Steals my senses, shuts my sight ; Drowns my spirits, draws my breath ? Tell me, my soul, can this be—death ? The world recedes ! it disappears ! Heaven opens to my eyes
Page 49 - hast thou laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure ; yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment : as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.' 1 Again, Paul tells us that 'the things which are seen are temporal,
Page 60 - Sad cure ! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being ? Those thoughts that wander through eternity To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion. So speaks Milton, putting the idea into the mouth of Belial, the fallen spirit, when addressing his peers. 45.
Page ii - Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning ; Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience, and comfort of thy holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life, which thou hast given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ.—Amen,
Page 30 - And many of them which sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament ; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 261 - Tell me, my soul, can this be—death ? The world recedes ! it disappears ! Heaven opens to my eyes !—my ears With sounds seraphic ring : Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! O Grave ! where is thy victory ? O Death ! where
Page 184 - CHAPTER VI. SPECULATIONS AS TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SUPERIOR INTELLIGENCES IN THE VISIBLE UNIVERSE. ' The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.'—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth. 177. OUR readers are now aware from what we have said in Chapter II. that the two great requisites for
Page 152 - :—Does it proceed from the surfaces of the attracting bodies, or does it penetrate their entire mass ? This question was answered by Newton, who came to the conclusion that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses, and inversely proportional to the square of their distances. But this
Page 162 - chance, direction, which thou canst not see, All discord, harmony not understood ; All partial evil, universal good ; And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, whatever is, is right.'—POPE. 154. IN
Page 194 - When down swung the sound of the far-off bell. She sigh'd, she look'd up through the clear green sea ; She said, " I must go, for my kinsfolk pray In the little grey church on the shore to-day. 'Twill be Easter time in the world—ah me ! And I lose my poor soul, Merman, here with