 | John Ray - 1714 - 430 pages
...even fo. I do not fee, but the Study of true Phyfiology, may be juftly accounted a proper or nj«ww<M* Preparative to Divinity. But to leave that, it is...as if there were no other end of any Creature, but fothe way or other to be ferviceable to Man. This Opinion is as old as Tulfy j for, faith he, in his... | |
 | John Ray - 1735 - 428 pages
...accounted a proper, or UpTnu&ia. Preparative to Divinity. But to leave that, it is a generally receiv'd Opinion, that all this vifible World was created for...to be ferviceable to Man. This Opinion is as old as Tally ; for, faith he, in his Second Book , De Nat. Deorum. Principio ipfe Mundus Deorum hominumque... | |
 | Roderick Frazier Nash - 1989 - 306 pages
...His thesis distilled to a single sentence: "It is a generally received opinion that all this visible world was created for Man; that Man is the end of...as if there were no other end of any creature but some way or other to be serviceable to man . . . yet," Ray continued, "wise men nowadays think otherwise."24... | |
 | Michael W. Fox - 1996 - 334 pages
...animals: It is a generally received opinion, that all this visible world was created for Man [and] that Man is the end of the Creation, as if there were no other end of any creature but some way or other to be serviceable to Man. . . . But though this be vulgarly received, yet wise men... | |
 | John Hedley Brooke, John Brooke, Geoffrey Cantor - 2000 - 392 pages
...Wisdom of God: 'It is a generally received opinion that all this visible world was created for Man [and] that Man is the end of the Creation, as if there were no other end of any creature but some way or other to be serviceable to man. But though this be vulgarly received, yet wise men nowadays... | |
 | J. Kent Minichiello, Anthony W. White - 2001 - 460 pages
...John Ray's straightforward assertion that "it is a generally received Opinion, that all this visible World was created for Man; that Man is the end of...as if there were no other end of any Creature, but some way or other to be serviceable to Man. This opinion is as old as Tully; . . . But though this... | |
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Creation; as if there were no other end of any creature, but some way or other to be serviceable to man. . . . But though this be vulgarly received, yet wise men now-a-days think otherwise. Dr. Moore affirms, That creatures are made to enjoy themselves... 