The New Science and the Old ReligionOglethorpe University Press, 1927 - 463 pages |
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Page vii
... facts , with expert training in some one subject , but as to any knowledge of the whence and whither of mankind , any conception of the trajectory of human progress , they lack it . What they have seemed to need is an introduction to ...
... facts , with expert training in some one subject , but as to any knowledge of the whence and whither of mankind , any conception of the trajectory of human progress , they lack it . What they have seemed to need is an introduction to ...
Page viii
... fact a story of the earth and its inhabitants . It should be reverently written , that the sup- erb spiritual values ... facts which it covers , whose barest state- ment is full of holy mystery ? Particularly have I had in mind the ...
... fact a story of the earth and its inhabitants . It should be reverently written , that the sup- erb spiritual values ... facts which it covers , whose barest state- ment is full of holy mystery ? Particularly have I had in mind the ...
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... facts revealed by the ever increasing number of telescopes was forbidden at all great univer- sities ; at Oxford and Cambridge , at Louvain , Pisa , Sala- manca , at Wittenburg , the University of Luther and Me- lancthon . Father ...
... facts revealed by the ever increasing number of telescopes was forbidden at all great univer- sities ; at Oxford and Cambridge , at Louvain , Pisa , Sala- manca , at Wittenburg , the University of Luther and Me- lancthon . Father ...
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... fact . " Thus were the windows of heaven opened and the rain of starry truths began . Soon Kepler and Newton and Herschel had come and then Newcomb and Schiaparelli and Young and Flammarion and Lowell . Now we are upon modern days and ...
... fact . " Thus were the windows of heaven opened and the rain of starry truths began . Soon Kepler and Newton and Herschel had come and then Newcomb and Schiaparelli and Young and Flammarion and Lowell . Now we are upon modern days and ...
Page 29
... fact that we find about our visible universe is that in this vast assemblage of suns and nebulæ , of planets and comets , of star clusters and cosmic dust there is found as in our solar system a definite uniformity of constitution and ...
... fact that we find about our visible universe is that in this vast assemblage of suns and nebulæ , of planets and comets , of star clusters and cosmic dust there is found as in our solar system a definite uniformity of constitution and ...
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