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... creation frequently renewed and extended . step , and an important one , towards this conclusion , we are able immediately to take . The work of creation was not a single act , begun and ended by a solitary exertion of power ; it was ...
... creation frequently renewed and extended . step , and an important one , towards this conclusion , we are able immediately to take . The work of creation was not a single act , begun and ended by a solitary exertion of power ; it was ...
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... creation , but a division of existence . The beginning of any material life , a tree , a flower , an animal , is not the crea- tion of any thing new , says the materialist , but the development of a germ which existed ages before ...
... creation , but a division of existence . The beginning of any material life , a tree , a flower , an animal , is not the crea- tion of any thing new , says the materialist , but the development of a germ which existed ages before ...
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... creation was not a solitary act , begun and completed long ago , but rather that it consisted of numberless acts , extending over vast periods of time ; and thus that it afforded not merely increased proofs of the Divine existence , but ...
... creation was not a solitary act , begun and completed long ago , but rather that it consisted of numberless acts , extending over vast periods of time ; and thus that it afforded not merely increased proofs of the Divine existence , but ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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