The Plurality of Worlds ...Gould and Lincoln, 1854 - 307 Seiten |
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Algol analogy animals appear argument assumption astronomical atmosphere believe bodies brute carbon dioxide centre Chalmers clouds comet conceive condition conjecture creation creatures density difficulty discover discoveries distance Divine doctrine earth evidence existence fact fixed stars geological geological periods geologists globe God's ground habitation Herschel hypothesis immense inhabitants intellectual intelligent Jupiter kind knowledge least less light and heat living things luminous man's Mars mass material matter meteoric stones mind Moon moral motions nature nebulæ Nebular Hypothesis objects occupied Old Red Sandstone organic peculiar perhaps period planetary planetesimal planets population present probably produce progress purpose reason regard region Religion religious remark resemblance revolution satellites Saturn scientific Sirius solar system solid space species speculations spiral spiral nebula strata suppose supposition surface telescope terrestrial thought thousand tion tribes truth universe Uranus vapor vast vegetable zodiacal light
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Seite 271 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of...
Seite 68 - ... dispute, Far other life you live, far other tongue You talk, far other thought, perhaps, you think, Than man. How various are the works of God! But say, what thought? Is Reason here enthron'd, And absolute?
Seite 277 - Nature, we learn from the past history of our globe that she has advanced with slow and stately steps, guided by the archetypal light amidst the wreck of worlds, from the first embodiment of the vertebrate idea, under its old ichthyic vestment, until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form,
Seite 272 - Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Seite 42 - Universe, who has so many worlds under His management, cannot be conceived as bestowing upon this earth, and its various tribes of inhabitants, that care which, till then, natural religion had taught men that He does employ to secure to man the possession and use of his faculties of mind and body, and to all animals the requisites of animal existence and animal enjoyment. And upon this Chalmers remarks, that just about the time when science gave rise to the suggestion of this difficulty, she also...
Seite 125 - His creation, mankind, this special care ; — He has made their period, though only a moment in the ages of animal life, the only period of intelligence, morality, religion. If then, to suppose that He has done this, is contrary to our conceptions of His greatness and majesty, it is plain that our conceptions are erroneous ; they have taken a wrong direction. God has not judged, as to what is worthy of Him, as we have judged. He has found it worthy of Him to bestow upon man His special care, though...
Seite 30 - How distant some of these nocturnal suns ! So distant (says the sage) 'twere not absurd To doubt if beams, set out at Nature's birth, Are yet arrived at this so foreign world, Though nothing half so rapid as their flight.