Our Place Among Infinities, a Series of Essays Contrasting Our Little Abode in Space and Time with the Infinities Around Us; To Which Are Added Essays on the Jewish Sabbath and Astrology - Couverture souple
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Ut his exordia primis Omnia, et ipse tener Mundi concreverit orbis. Turn durare solum, et discludere Nerea poiito Cceperit, et rerum paullatim sumere formas. VIRGIL. THE subject with which I am about to deal is associated by many with questions of religion. Let me premise, however, that I do not thus view it myself. It seems to me impossible to obtain from science any clear ideas respecting the ways or nature of theD eity, or even respecting the reality of an Almighty personal God. Science deals with the finite though it may carry our thoughts to the infinite. Infinity of space and of matter occupying -pace, of time and of the processes with which time is occupied, and infinity of energy as necessarily implied by the infinities of matter and of the operations This essay presents the substance of a lecture delivered inN ew York on A pril 3, 1874, being the first of a subsidiary series in which, of set purpose (and in accordance with the request of several esteemed friends), I dealt less with the direct teachings of astronomy, which had occupied me in a former series, than with ideas suggested by astronomical facts, and more particularly by the discoveries made during the last quarter of a century.
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