 | Harland Coultas - 1863 - 200 pages
...has not permitted in his works any symptoms of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we might estimate either their future or their past duration....to the present system at some determinate period, but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pages
...permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate cither their future or their past duration. He may put an...to the present system, at some determinate period ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 pages
...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to...to the present system, at some determinate period; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 pages
...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist The Author of nature has not given laws to the...to the present system, at some determinate period; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws... | |
 | Charles Beard - 1868 - 656 pages
...of their own destruction. Ho has not permitted in his works any symptoms of infancy or of old ago, or any sign by which we may estimate either their...beginning, to the present system, at some determinate time ; but we may safely conclude that this groat catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the... | |
 | 1868 - 626 pages
...of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. " lie may put an end, as He no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate time ; but we may safely conclude that this great catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1875 - 702 pages
...termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should anywhere exist. The Author of Nature has not given laws to...of time : but we may rest assured that this great catastroplie_wjjl not be brought about by the laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by anything... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either...to the present system at some determinate period of lime; but we may rest assuied that this great catastrophe will not l>e brought about by the laws now... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or X X ihe laws now existing, and that it is not indicated by anything which we perceive. JOHN PLAYFAIR :... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 850 pages
...contemplation that broader, deeper view, which inspired Hutton to declare that "the Author of Nature may put on an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning to the present system ;" but we do not discover that any germs of destruction have been planted in the constitution of things.... | |
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we... 
