 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - Science - 2001 - 604 pages
...their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptoms of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as He no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period;... | |
 | Claude C. Albritton - Science - 2002 - 256 pages
...their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptoms of infancy, or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as He, no doubt, gave a beginning to the present system at some determinate time;... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 466 pages
...their own destruction. He has not permitted, in his works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as he no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate period... | |
 | Stephen Baxter - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 264 pages
...write, 'The author of nature ... has not permitted in his works any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration.' Hutton was not saying the Earth was eternal (a point that was to be greatly misunderstood, as will... | |
 | American literature - 1905 - 1102 pages
...their own destruction. He has not permitted in His works any symptoms of infancy, or of old age, or any sign by which we may estimate either their future or their past duration. He may put an end, as He no doubt gave a beginning, to the present system, at some determinate time;... | |
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their own destruction. He has not permitted, in His works, any symptom of infancy or of old age, or any sign by which we... 
