Light and darkness; or, A reply to 'The stars and the earth' [by F. Eberty]. By the author of 'Imaginations and imitations'.1848 |
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Pàgina 40 - God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...
Pàgina 18 - ... ideas. I now continue in the supposition that I have hitherto made myself perfectly understood by the reader: that the idea of possibility which I have laid down has as little to do with dreams as it has, on the other side, with the question of practicability. With this idea we may maintain that it is possible — ie, not in contradiction to the laws of thought — that a man may travel to a star in a given time, and that he may effect this provided with so powerful a telescope as to be able...
Pàgina 72 - They who have made the highes advances in true science will be the first to confess how limited these faculties are, and how small a part we can comprehend of the ways of the Almighty Creator. They will be the first to acknowledge, tha't the highest acquirement of human wisdom is to advance to that line which is its legitimate boundary, and there contemplating the wondrous field which lies beyond it, to bend in humble adoration before a wisdom which it cannot fathom, and a power which cannot comprehend...
Pàgina 43 - Every day will I bless Thee ; And I will praise Thy name for ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised ; And His greatness is unsearchable.
Pàgina 64 - ... after three quarters of an hour as it was one thousand years ago> and after an hour as it now is. We want no further proof, and it is evident, beyond the possibility of contradiction, that if an observer were able to comprehend with his eye the whirling procession of these consecutive images, he would have lived through the entire history of the world, with all the events and transactions which have happened in the hemisphere of the globe, turned towards him, in a single hour.
Pàgina 72 - They who have made the highest advances in true science will be the first to confess how limited these faculties are, and how small a part they can comprehend of the ways of the Almighty Creator ; they will be the first to acknowledge that the highest...
Pàgina 64 - ... to within the distance of a hundred millions of miles, being then as near to us as the sun is, whence the earth is seen as it was eight minutes before ; let us imagine all this, quite apart from any claims of possibility or reality, and then we have indubitably the following result : that before the eye of this observer the entire history of the world, from the time of Abraham to the present day, passes by in the space of an hour.
Pàgina 17 - ... of time. The omniscience of God, with regard to the past, is become intelligible and easy to us, as a sensible and material all-surveying view. Before His eyes, endued with immeasurable powers of sight, the picture of past thousands of years is, at the present moment, actually extended in space. Hence, when we imagine the purely human sense of sight rendered more extended and acute, we are able actually to comprehend one of the attributes of the Deity.
Pàgina 18 - To the view of an observer from another fixed star, our Saviour appears now upon earth, performing His miracles and ascending into heaven ; and thus every moment which has passed during the lapse of centuries, down to the present time, may be actually recalled so as to be present.
Pàgina 20 - For as with a steam-carriage we can travel a geographical mile in ten minutes, and with the electric telegraph can ring a bell at a distance of ten miles in a second, so the supposition that we may be enabled to move from one place to another with a speed far surpassing the rapidity of light, rests upon possibility. We repeat that practically and experimentally such a result will never be arrived at, and require simply that the following be allowed. If we show that something which hitherto existed...