A Discourse of Natural Theology: Showing the Nature of the Evidence and the Advantages of the Study

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Charles Knight, 1835 - 296 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 90 - In the next place, man knows by an intuitive certainty, that bare nothing can no more produce any real being, than it can be equal to two right angles.
Sayfa 89 - These are the speculations of men of superior genius. But whether they be as solid as they are sublime, or whether they be the wanderings of imagination in a region beyond the limits of human understanding, I am unable to determine.
Sayfa 185 - ... that so provident a cause as nature had not placed so many valves '• without design ; and no design seemed more probable, than that, since " the blood could not well, because of the interposing valves, be sent by " the veins to the limbs, it should be sent through the arteries, and re" turn through the veins, whose valves did not oppose its course that
Sayfa 151 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.
Sayfa 34 - From this arrangement it must follow that the chick is always uppermost, roll the egg how you will ; consequently, the chick is always kept nearest to the breast or belly of the mother while she is sitting. Suppose, then, that any one acquainted with the laws of motion had to contrive things so as to secure this position for the little speck or sac in question, in order to its receiving the necessary heat from the hen — could he proceed otherwise than by placing it in the lighter liquid, and suspending...
Sayfa 226 - lam vero animum ipsum mentemque hominis rationem consilium prudentiam qui non divina cura perfecta esse perspicit, is his ipsis rebus mihi videtur carere.
Sayfa 4 - Catonem meum, quo nemo vir melior natus est, nemo pietate praestantior ! cujus a me corpus crematum est (quod contra decuit ab illo meum) : animus vero non me deserens, sed respectans, in ea profecto loca discessit, quo mihi ipsi cernebat esse veniendum.
Sayfa 33 - When a bird's egg is examined, it is found to consist of three parts ; the chick, the yolk in which the chick is placed, and the white in which the yolk swims. The yolk is lighter than the white; and it is attached to it at two points, joined by a line, or rather plane, below the centre of gravity of the yolk. From this arrangement it must follow that the chick is always uppermost, roll the egg how you will; consequently, the chick is always kept nearest to the breast or belly of the mother while...
Sayfa 54 - Thus, all these authors view the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, the structure of animals, the organization of plants, and the various operations of the material world which we see carried on around us, as indicating the existence of design, and leading to a knowledge of the Creator. But they pass over in silence, unaccountably enough, by far the most singular work of divine wisdom and power — the mind itself.
Sayfa 201 - Sermons in the year, for Proving the Christian Religion against notorious Infidels, viz., Atheists, Theists, Pagans, Jews, and Mahometans, not descending lower to any controversies that are among Christians themselves...

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