 Minds which have been long accustomed to date the origin of the universe, as well as that of the human race, from an era of about six thousand years ago, receive reluctantly any information, which if true, demands some new modification of their present...  The wreck of The Roscommon [verse]. - Pàgina 108per Stephen Prentis - 1844Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | William Williams Mather - 1841 - 310 pàgines
...receive with reluctance any information, which if true, demands some new modification of their present ideas of cosmogony ; and, as in this respect, geology...sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revf .Jed religion ; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - 434 pàgines
...receive reluctantly any information, which, if true, demands some new modification of their present ideas of cosmogony ; and as, in this respect, geology...be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the power, and wisdom, and goodness of the Creator." — Bd.p. 1 8. 705.... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 pàgines
...least add to its credibility; but that the number of those who doubt it has a tendency to diminish it." Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences,...for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; but like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting... | |
 | Richard Lane Freer - 1866 - 316 pàgines
...least add to its credibility; but that the number of those who doubt it has a tendency to diminish it." Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences,...for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; but like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting... | |
 | H Freer - 1866 - 370 pàgines
...the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; but like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the power, and wisdom, and goodness of the Almighty Architect of the universe.... | |
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