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Page viii
... writer does not claim exemption from the frail- ties of human nature , hence his work is far from being perfect . The subject is important , and it is this that urges him to print . If , then , the following pages still the throbbing ...
... writer does not claim exemption from the frail- ties of human nature , hence his work is far from being perfect . The subject is important , and it is this that urges him to print . If , then , the following pages still the throbbing ...
Page ix
... writer has tried , as far as possible , to name his authors . But in a work like this it is impossible to do so in every case , because by constant readings on Geology their thoughts became incorporated with his own . Let the Christian ...
... writer has tried , as far as possible , to name his authors . But in a work like this it is impossible to do so in every case , because by constant readings on Geology their thoughts became incorporated with his own . Let the Christian ...
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... writers . Both these books must be explained before a correct account can be obtained . These rocks which compose the book of nature , are not mere chaotic masses heaped together amid the desolations of volcanic eruptions , but telling ...
... writers . Both these books must be explained before a correct account can be obtained . These rocks which compose the book of nature , are not mere chaotic masses heaped together amid the desolations of volcanic eruptions , but telling ...
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... writers , that their probationary state may have been in some planetary world similar to ours , and after the ... writer comes in and confirms our idea of creation , in the sublime affirmation , that in " the beginning the heavens ...
... writers , that their probationary state may have been in some planetary world similar to ours , and after the ... writer comes in and confirms our idea of creation , in the sublime affirmation , that in " the beginning the heavens ...
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... writer here wishes to impress our minds with the fact that the world had a beginning , in opposition to the idea of its being eternal . And also that the world was not the production of chance , but a creation . Still the term , " in ...
... writer here wishes to impress our minds with the fact that the world had a beginning , in opposition to the idea of its being eternal . And also that the world was not the production of chance , but a creation . Still the term , " in ...
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