 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 620 pages
...of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and, in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. | It is unreasonable,... | |
 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 554 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 552 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Bible and geology - 1829 - 704 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark cither of the commencement or of the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable indeed,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Bible and geology - 1829 - 704 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried the eye so far both into the future VXY\& ^e. ^as we discover no mark either of the commetvcevnenV ox cS termination of the present order.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...species of animals and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, cither of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
...very uncharitable suspicions of the motives of its author. They accused him of a deliberate design of reviving the heathen dogma of an " eternal succession,"...far, both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...species of animale and vegetables that inhabit the earth, we discern neither a beginning nor an end ; and in the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark, either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
 | William Rhind - Earth - 1838 - 230 pages
...end,—a circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
 | William Rhind - Earth - 1838 - 222 pages
...end,—a circumstance that accords with what is known concerning other parts of the economy of the world. In the planetary motions, where geometry has carried...far both into the future and the past, we discover no mark either of the commencement or the termination of the present order. It is unreasonable, indeed,... | |
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reviving the heathen dogma of an " eternal succession," and of denying that this world ever had a beginning. Playfair, in the biography of his friend, has the following comment on this part of their theory: — "In the planetary motions, where geometry... 
