 It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power ; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future condition of the earth can be held to give dispiriting views...  Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 25by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Albert Shaw - 1893 - 898 pages
...heat, rather than to a single finite mechanism running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without an overruling creative power, and therefore no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future... | |
 | W. T. B. Martin, T. E. S. T. - 1894 - 536 pages
...glance ; The world His image. 'Neath His shadowy hand The universe subsists." Lord Kelvin said, "It is impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of Life without an over-ruling creative power."* Speaking of the Hebrew Scriptures, Sir William Jones, the eminent... | |
 | 1889 - 900 pages
...light, delivered in Philadelphia. There are two lectures on the sun's heat, one of which considers the probable limits to the periods of time past and future...be reckoned on as a source of heat and light. The second volume of this series will include subjects connected with geology, and the third will be chiefly... | |
 | 1900 - 600 pages
...into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock, and stopping forever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1908 - 448 pages
...Times " and the press generally throughout the country. In one of his addresses he remarked that "it is impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without an overruling creative power. Therefore no conclusion of dynamical science regarding the future condition... | |
 | Charles Robert Gibson - 1909 - 402 pages
...Kelvin made some very interesting statements in a public address a few years ago. He said, " It is impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life without an overruling creative power. ... I feel profoundly convinced that the argument of design has been... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1912 - 564 pages
...into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock, and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future... | |
 | Sir Joseph Larmor - 632 pages
...into heat, than to a single finite mechanism, running down like a clock and stopping for ever. It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or...to lay before the Section an application of these genera] views to the discovery of probable limits to the periods of time past and future, during which... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...dissipation of energy and the finite age of the sun and solar system (ch. 15), but also that it was 'impossible to conceive either the beginning or the...of life without a creating and overruling power'. In the 1 862 Macmillan's Magazine version, 'On the age of the sun's heat', Thomson changed the phrase... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 pages
...dissipation of energy and the finite age of the sun and solar system (ch. 15), but also that it was 'impossible to conceive either the beginning or the...of life without a creating and overruling power'. In the 1862 Macmillan's Magazine version, 'On the age of the sun's heat', Thomson changed the phrase... | |
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