The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to TheologyJ.W. Parker, 1838 - 313 psl. |
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... physiologists , among whom Geoffrey St. Hilaire stands most conspicuous , have contended that even these breaks between the four classes may be filled up , and new principles of analogy deve- loped and traced out , by which these ...
... physiologists , among whom Geoffrey St. Hilaire stands most conspicuous , have contended that even these breaks between the four classes may be filled up , and new principles of analogy deve- loped and traced out , by which these ...
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... physiologist , as supplying the materials for the conclusions of natural theology , he is undoubtedly right in assuming solely the character of the historian , and seeking . only bare facts and laws , that he may from them elicit the ...
... physiologist , as supplying the materials for the conclusions of natural theology , he is undoubtedly right in assuming solely the character of the historian , and seeking . only bare facts and laws , that he may from them elicit the ...
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... physiologist the most marvellous preserva- tion of exact analogy , even throughout the most apparently trackless mazes of dissimilarity . other , without taking this wide range , yet establishes the same truth , within more limited and ...
... physiologist the most marvellous preserva- tion of exact analogy , even throughout the most apparently trackless mazes of dissimilarity . other , without taking this wide range , yet establishes the same truth , within more limited and ...
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... physiologists , of the existence of abortive , yet always symmetrical parts in plants . The subject has been touched upon in immediate connexion with our present application of it by Dr. Daubeny , ( TO NATURAL THEOLOGY . 137.
... physiologists , of the existence of abortive , yet always symmetrical parts in plants . The subject has been touched upon in immediate connexion with our present application of it by Dr. Daubeny , ( TO NATURAL THEOLOGY . 137.
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... physiologist . But may I not likewise observe that the dishes that constitute this repast are arranged in a certain sym- metrical order , such as is agreeable to the eye and plainly announces design and volition ? " Now , if on ...
... physiologist . But may I not likewise observe that the dishes that constitute this repast are arranged in a certain sym- metrical order , such as is agreeable to the eye and plainly announces design and volition ? " Now , if on ...
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