On Mammalian Descent; the Hunterian Lectures for 1884: Being Nine Lectures Delivered in the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons During February, 1884Charles Griffin & Company, 1885 - 229 Seiten |
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On Mammalian Descent: The Hunterian Lectures for 1884; Being Nine Lectures ... W. Kitchen Parker Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 216 - ... philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.
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Seite 216 - But farther, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...
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