| Science - 1861 - 734 pages
...a twofold jioint of view. When Newton says, in the general scholium at the end of the Principia, " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being," he gives utterance to an inference as truly logical and as truly scientific as any to be found in his... | |
| Joseph Henry Wythe - Religion and science - 1872 - 302 pages
...system of human cognitions." Sir Isaac Newton concludes his immortal Principia by declaring that " this most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. . . . This Being," he says, "governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all... | |
| Christian evidence society, Samuel Wilberforce - Apologetics - 1872 - 502 pages
...elements themselves. It speaks by the lips of its greatest discoverer : " This most beautiful system of sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from...dominion of an intelligent and powerful being." And thus we have a third line of light, which leads direct to the throne of an All-wise God. The vast forces... | |
| Bible Christians - 1874 - 662 pages
...; and I am always willing to do the little I can towards that end. XW GARLAND. February 6th, 1874. "This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and...centres of other like systems, these being formed by thelike wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One ; especially, since the light of the... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1876 - 346 pages
...himself rejected and condemned, as utterly opposed to sound reason. He writes of it as follows : " This most beautiful system of the Sun, Planets and...powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of... | |
| Methodist Church - 1877 - 786 pages
...exceedingly regular, are governed by the same laws with the motions of the planets." And again : " This beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets,...and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being." It is worthy of remark that the problem with which Newton concludes his " System of the World " relates... | |
| John Guthrie - Bible - 1878 - 220 pages
...concluding observations (quoted by Canon Birks, in The Scripture Doctrine of Creation, pp. 171"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets,...these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must all be subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars and sun is of... | |
| Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1878 - 564 pages
...laws of nature are no product of a blind and fatal necessity. "This beautiful system," he says, " of sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." And again — " Blind, metaphysical necessity, which is the same always and everywhere, could produce no... | |
| Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 pages
...1701. His theological writings evince his sincere belief in the Kecords of the Christian Revelation, and a passage1 in the general scholium at the 1 The...planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel arid dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other... | |
| 1879 - 912 pages
...Cotes, Newton added at the close of the last book a scholium from which we extract the following ; " This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and...dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these, being formed by the like- wise counsel, must... | |
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