The Creative Week: Being a Secular Exposition of the Mosaic Record of Creation. By the Author of “Commentaries on the Georgics of Virgil” and Other WorksMaclachlan & Stewart, 1856 - 402 pages |
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... geological periods , each of great length ; that five of these long periods ran their course between " the beginning " and the commencement of the sixth epoch , the time when man began to make his appear- ance on the stage of this earth ...
... geological periods , each of great length ; that five of these long periods ran their course between " the beginning " and the commencement of the sixth epoch , the time when man began to make his appear- ance on the stage of this earth ...
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... period which the a priori men sup- pose to intervene between " the begin- ning " of Moses and the first creative day . The Seven Days of the Mosaic Record viewed as Geological Periods . reader the peculiar views of each party : — the ...
... period which the a priori men sup- pose to intervene between " the begin- ning " of Moses and the first creative day . The Seven Days of the Mosaic Record viewed as Geological Periods . reader the peculiar views of each party : — the ...
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... ages before the human period began ; whilst the fourth party , the ex nihilo men , make the creative week the time ... geological periods running far back into the past eternity . And thus we find all the four parties at wide and open ...
... ages before the human period began ; whilst the fourth party , the ex nihilo men , make the creative week the time ... geological periods running far back into the past eternity . And thus we find all the four parties at wide and open ...
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... geological periods it has passed through ; and as I wish to ad- vance nothing without proof , I shall not in this ... period which the a priori men would have us be- lieve intervenes between the beginning " and the creative week . In the ...
... geological periods it has passed through ; and as I wish to ad- vance nothing without proof , I shall not in this ... period which the a priori men would have us be- lieve intervenes between the beginning " and the creative week . In the ...
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... period be re- quired , there is a fossil man in the British Museum , and another in the Museum of the Jardins des ... geological periods were once all living plants and animals , their case may be pro- nounced hopeless in the extreme ...
... period be re- quired , there is a fossil man in the British Museum , and another in the Museum of the Jardins des ... geological periods were once all living plants and animals , their case may be pro- nounced hopeless in the extreme ...
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