The Christian's Relation to Evolution: A Question of Gain Or LossF. H. Revell Company, 1904 - 171 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 102 - For the earnest expectation of the creation waiteth for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
الصفحة 81 - A miracle may be accurately defined, a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent.
الصفحة 137 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
الصفحة 10 - primordial units," while Eimer breaks a lance with Weismann in defence of Darwin, and Herbert Spencer replies for himself, assuring us that " either there has been inheritance of acquired characters or there has been no evolution.
الصفحة 10 - Descent with modification is now universally accepted as the order of nature in the organic world," there is everywhere at this moment the most disturbing uncertainty as to how the Ascent even of species has been brought about. The attacks on the Darwinian theory from the outside were never so keen as are the controversies now raging in scientific circles, over the fundamental principles of Darwinism itself. On at least two main points — sexual selection and the origin of the higher mental characteristics...
الصفحة 12 - The hypothesis of evolution supposes that in all this vast progression there would be no breach of continuity, no point at which we could say
الصفحة 94 - For his successful progress, as far as the savage state, man has been largely indebted to those qualities which he shares with the ape and the tiger...
الصفحة 91 - Life was a continual free fight, and beyond the limited and temporary relations of the family, the Hobbesian war of each against all was the normal state of existence. The human species, like others, plashed and floundered amid the general stream of evolution, keeping its head above water as it best might, and thinking neither of whence nor whither.
الصفحة 48 - Whence came the soul we no more know than we know whence came the universe. The primal origin of consciousness is hidden in the depths of the bygone eternity. That it cannot possibly be the product of any cunning arrangement of material particles is demonstrated beyond peradventure by what we now know of the correlation of physical...
الصفحة 156 - ... and animal existence — if Man and Society, however high the degree of evolution at which they arrive, are similarly dependent on this supply of force that is gradually coming to an end — if thus the highest, equally with the lowest, terrestrial life, must eventually dwindle and disappear ; are we not manifestly progressing towards omnipresent death ? And have we thus to contemplate, as the out-come of things, a universe of extinct suns round which circle planets devoid of life ?" That such...