 | Claude C. Albritton - 2002 - 256 pages
...in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptoms of infancy, or of old age, or any sign by which we...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... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - 2004 - 466 pages
...eye so far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable,...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... | |
 | 1905 - 1082 pages
...in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptoms of infancy, or of old age, or any sign by which we...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... | |
 | 1893 - 884 pages
...either the past or the future duration of the universe can be estimated; and that although the Creator may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, such a catastrophe will not be brought about by any of the laws now existing, and is not indicated... | |
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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... 
