A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, Volume 2

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D. Appleton, 1926

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Page 189 - But when ye shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified ; for these things must first come to pass, but the end is not by and by.
Page 176 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Page 107 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 4 - Then stay'd the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe, and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turn'd Round through the vast profundity obscure, And said, ' Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world!
Page 127 - 'wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy ; " ' but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded " ' the sun to stand still, and not the earth
Page 191 - And there shall be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars, and upon the earth distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth ; for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
Page 12 - ... to be for signs and for seasons, and for days and for years," and " to rule the day and the night.
Page 148 - Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun • He from the east his flaming road begin; Or she from west her silent course advance, With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle, while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along; Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid; Leave them to God above.
Page 138 - a decree that ' the doctrine of the double motion of " ' the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, " ' and entirely contrary to Holy Scripture '; and that "this opinion must neither be taught nor advocated.
Page viii - In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammeled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and science.

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