Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques
IN a world of mere phenomena, where all events are bound to one another
by a rigid law of cause and effect, it is possible to imagine the
course of a long period bringing all things at the end of it into
exactly the same relations as they occupied at the beginning. We
should, then, obviously have a succession of cycles rigidly similar to
one another, both in events and in the sequence of them. The universe
would eternally repeat the same changes in a fixed order of recurrence,
though each cycle might be many millions of years in length. Moreover,
the precise similarity of these cycles would render the very existence
of each one of them entirely unnecessary. We can suppose, without any
logical inconsequence, any one of them struck out, and the two which
had been destined to precede and follow it brought into immediate
contiguity.
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Essays and Reviews: The Education of the World, Bunsen's Biblical Researches, On the Study of the Evidences of Christianity; Seances Historiques
IN a world of mere phenomena, where all events are bound to one another
by a rigid law of cause and effect, it is possible to imagine the
course of a long period bringing all things at the end of it into
exactly the same relations as they occupied at the beginning. We
should, then, obviously have a succession of cycles rigidly similar to
one another, both in events and in the sequence of them. The universe
would eternally repeat the same changes in a fixed order of recurrence,
though each cycle might be many millions of years in length. Moreover,
the precise similarity of these cycles would render the very existence
of each one of them entirely unnecessary. We can suppose, without any
logical inconsequence, any one of them struck out, and the two which
had been destined to precede and follow it brought into immediate
contiguity.
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BN ID: | 2940011937484 |
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Publisher: | New Century Books |
Publication date: | 10/12/2010 |
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