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... earth ex- ists , or is ; it is equally a fact that the earth moves . That there is a sun in the heavens is a fact of one order ; that this sun illumines objects on the earth is a fact of a different order , — it is an event which takes ...
... earth ex- ists , or is ; it is equally a fact that the earth moves . That there is a sun in the heavens is a fact of one order ; that this sun illumines objects on the earth is a fact of a different order , — it is an event which takes ...
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... earth , to the assumed continuance , through the endless ages that are past , of the various lines and races of animate and organic being , upheld only by the inherent energy of the laws , so called , which support or direct their ...
... earth , to the assumed continuance , through the endless ages that are past , of the various lines and races of animate and organic being , upheld only by the inherent energy of the laws , so called , which support or direct their ...
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... earth , might be expected to furnish proofs of the agency of that Being by whom this earth , with all that it inhabit , was created and sus- lained . Taking the first , and certainly the more abstract , branch of the argument , that ...
... earth , might be expected to furnish proofs of the agency of that Being by whom this earth , with all that it inhabit , was created and sus- lained . Taking the first , and certainly the more abstract , branch of the argument , that ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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