 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...changes of form, to recognise the invariability of natural laws, and has thus by the force of mind gradually subdued a great portion of the physical...first glimmering perception of the same image of a KOSMOS, or HARMONIOUSLY ORDERED WHOLE, which, dimly shadowed forth to the human mind in the primitive... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...changes of form, to recognize the invariability of natural laws, and has thus by the force of mind gradually subdued a great portion of the physical...shadowed forth to the human mind in the primitive ages, is now fully revealed to the maturer intellect of mankind as the result of long and laborious observation.... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...changes of form, to recognize the invariability of natural laws, and has thus by the force of mind gradually subdued a great portion of the physical...shadowed forth to the human mind in the primitive ages, is now fully revealed to the maturer intellect of mankind as the result of long and laborious observation.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 470 pages
...changes of form, to recognize the invariability of natural laws, and has thus by the force of mind gradually subdued a great portion of the physical...the past, we trace the mysterious course of ideas 7771 yielding the first glimmering perception of the same image of a Cosmos, or harmoniously ordered... | |
 | 1901 - 628 pages
...changes of form, to recognize the invariability of natural laws, and has thus by the force of mind gradually subdued a great portion of the physical...the mysterious course of ideas yielding the first glimmer;!)!; perception of the same image of a Cosmos, or harmoniously ordered whole, which, dimly... | |
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He who can trace, through by-gone times, the stream of our knowledge to its primitive source, will learn from history how, for thousands of years, man has labored, amid the ever-recurring changes of form, to recognize the invariability of natural laws,... 