 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...Analogy of Religion). NA TURE. —NE CESSJTY.—NE1GHB O URS. —NIGHT. 489 The Author of nature has nut given laws to the universe which, like the institutions...themselves 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...same sort of difficulties in it as are found in the constitution of Nature. OKIGEN: 4SS 489 The Auihor Allibone Samuel Austin" Samuel Austin Allibone( He has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or old age, or any sign by which we may estimate... | |
 | Stephen Alexander Hodgman - 1881 - 1240 pages
...Hutton," which is the production certainly of a philosophic mind, we find the following concession: "The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...themselves, the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in His works, any symptoms of infancy or of old age, or any signs by which we... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pages
...retrenching the superfluous, and adding force to what is principal to everything. — SHAFTESBURY. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe...themselves 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... | |
 | Peter Martin Duncan - 1882 - 388 pages
...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 universe, which, like the constitutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted... | |
 | 1886 - 592 pages
...controversy. Playfair, the mathematician and biographer of Hutton, defended his views and said : " The Author of Nature has not given laws to the universe...themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptoms of infancy, or of old age, or any signs by which we... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1894 - 636 pages
...the present order. It is unreason" able, indeed, to suppose that such marks should "anywhere exist. The Author of nature has not " given laws to the universe,...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... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 484 pages
...the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose, that such marks should any where exist. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe,...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 may... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 646 pages
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should exist anywhere. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe...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 may... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 634 pages
...of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed, to suppose that such marks should exist anywhere. The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe...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 may... | |
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He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate... 
