Inaugural Address on the Application of Classical and Scientific Education to Theology; And on the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion ... Use of the Pupils of Bristol College, Being - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1150964693 ISBN 13: 9781150964695

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... cation of these laws, and the infinite multiplicity of ends attained by the efficiency of a few simple principles; to the action of which, therefore, the whole frame of nature, throughout all its parts, must be nicely adjusted; the physical constitution of all its masses, and the mechanical structure of every living frame it contains requiring to be regulated in exact accordance with them. One of our poets has observed, not more beautifully than philosophically, that--"The very law that moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law maintains the world a sphere, And guides the planets in their course." The wing of the meanest and minutest insect which the passing breeze wafts by us, even those which man requires the aid of the mieroscope to enable him to discern, must have its muscular powers, and the mechanism by which they act, as exquisitely adjusted to the operation of those laws in the medium in which it lives and moves and has its being, as the grand mass of Jupiter majestically sailing, surrounded by its attendant moons, through the vast plains of aether. ASTRONOMY. Astronomy, however, undoubtedly affords the most sublime exemplification of these laws, and that which has in every age been considered as affording the noblest illustration of the wisdom and power of the great First Cause. To this the inspired Psalmist repeatedly alludes in his loftiest and warmest devotional strains; and as he informs us, "That the words of these heavenly bodies had gone out to the ends of the world, and there was no tongue or language where their voice was not heard;" so we shall find that it was from hence that those unblest with Revelation were enabled to approximate most nearly to some just conceptions of the Divine attributes. Classical antiquity has...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1150964693
• ISBN 13: 9781150964695
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