 ... the past duration of the earth be finite, then the aggregate of geological epochs, however numerous, must constitute a mere moment of the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity.  The American Naturalist - Página 5301875Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1839 - 702 páginas
...yet the arguments from analogy in support of the probability of a beginning remain unshaken ; and if the past duration of the earth be finite, then the...the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity. " We aspire in vain to assign limits to the works of creation in *pace ; whether we examine the starry... | |
 | 1834 - 580 páginas
...a beginning, remains unshaken ; and if the past duration of the March, — VOL. XL. NO. CLIX. 2 о earth be finite, then the aggregate of geological...the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity." " It has been argued, that as the different states of the earth's surface, and the different species... | |
 | 918 páginas
...the clear proofs of a Creative Intelligence, and of His foresight, wisdom, and power;"— and that " the aggregate of Geological epochs, however numerous,...the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity." Vol. iv. p. 393-4 ; fifth edition. The cause of religion cannot be promoted by misrepresentation. We... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1833 - 570 páginas
...yet the arguments from analogy in support of the probability of a beginning remain unshaken ; and if the past duration of the earth be finite, then the...must constitute a mere moment of the past, a mere infinitessimal portion of eternity. It has been argued, that as the different states of the earth's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1834 - 580 páginas
...a beginning, remains unshaken ; and if the past duration of the March, — vot. XL. NO. CLIX. 2 с earth be finite, then the aggregate of geological...the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity." " It has been argued, that as the different states of the earth's surface, and the different species... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1835 - 482 páginas
...a beginning remain unshaken; and if the pas: duration of the earth be finite, then the aggregate o; geological epochs, however numerous, must constitute...the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity. It has been argued, that, as the different states of the earth.s surface, and the different species... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 582 páginas
...yet the arguments from analogy in support of the probability of a beginning remain unshaken ; and if the past duration of the earth be finite, then the...the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity. It has been argued, that, as the different states of the earth's surface, and the different species... | |
 | 1875 - 692 páginas
...treating of it here, it will be well, however meagre the result, to divest it of merely speculative viewa, and to present as far as possible the actual facts...geological epochs, however numerous, must constitute a mere moraent'of the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity." Yet to our limited vision, the origin... | |
 | 1875 - 692 páginas
...treating of it here, it will be well, however meagre the result, to divest it of merely speculative viewa, and to present as far as possible the actual facts...geological epochs, however numerous, must constitute a mere moraent'of the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity." Yet to our limited vision, the origin... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1877 - 448 páginas
...than of the beginning. Inconceivable as is to us the lapse of " geological time," it is no more than "a mere moment of the past, a mere infinitesimal portion of eternity." Well may " the human heart, that weeps and trembles," say, with Richter's pilgrim through celestial... | |
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