Atheism and Arithmetic, Or, Mathematical Law in Nature: Arithmetic in Plants and Planets, Mathematics in Musical Science, Number in Vital Action

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H.L. Hastings, 1885 - 63 sider

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Side 49 - He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
Side 36 - Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight : but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
Side 53 - I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
Side 31 - Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number : he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power ; not one faileth.
Side 12 - Dalhousie's minute only amounts to denial of the existence of the sun by a blind man ; and there are none so blind as those who will not see.
Side 14 - For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity...
Side 20 - O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
Side 13 - A law may be a rule of action, but it is not action. The Great First Agent may lay down a rule of action for himself, and that rule may become known to man by observation of its uniformity: but constituted as our minds are, and having that conscious knowledge of causation which is forced upon us by the reality of the distinction between intending a thing and doing it, we can never substitute the Rule for the Act.
Side 12 - Numa forbade the Romans to represent God in the form of man or beast, nor was there any painted or graven image of a deity admitted amongst them for the space of the first hundred and seventy years, all...
Side 8 - Evolution is a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, through continuous differentiations and integrations...

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