There is therefore nothing, in what we know of the Cosmical conditions of our globe, to contradict the Terrestrial evidence for its vast antiquity, as the seat of organic life.
In this comparison, as in most others to which cosmical relations conduct us, we must expect that the numbers to which we are led, will be of very considerable amount.
The purity of the Sankhya notions are, however, everywhere in the Puranas obscured by Vedanta doctrines, especially that of cosmical illusion.
It must be remembered that, in the formation of the cosmical soul, the ingredients were the eternal Ideas; of these there could be a remnant after the cosmical soul was formed.
Thus the sentient capacity of the cosmical soul became the cognition of the Same and the Different, and the blended Same and Different, because it embodied these three ingredients in its own nature.
But the cosmical body, which was formed out of the material elements, comprehended the whole of them, and there could be no remnant or surplus of them remaining outside.
He then proceeded to compound together, but in inferior perfection and purity, the remnant of the same elements out of which he had formed the cosmical soul.
Nevertheless, I have long suspected that some periodical astronomical or cosmical cause must be the agent of the incessant oscillations of level in the earth's crust.
I have always thought that some cosmical cause would some day be discovered.
As a change from elevation to subsidence implies some great subterranean or cosmical change, one may surely calculate on long intervals of rest between.
In short, the remark which was made regarding the indifference of the cosmical laws to the scale on which they operated is to be repeated regarding the geological.
The occupant of a professorial chair at the Johannaeum unable to explain the reason of a cosmical phenomenon!
It was like an aurora borealis, a continuous cosmical phenomenon, filling a cavern of sufficient extent to contain an ocean.
Each particular reality represented rest and fixity: each held ground as long as it could against the pressure of the cosmical force, essentially moving, destroying, and renovating.
See a good summary of Aristotle's cosmical views, in Ideler, Comm.
Both the one and the other initiate the rotatory cosmical motion; upon which follows as well the partial disgregation of the chaotic mass, as the congregation of like particles of it towards each other.
Pythagoras and Empedokles blend with their speculations a good deal both of ethics and theology, which we shall find yet more preponderant when we come to the cosmical theories of Plato.
An exposition, lastly, disavowing all that taste for cosmical speculation, and that transcendental dogmatism, which formed one among the leading features of Plato as distinguished from Sokrates.
The different meteoric streams, each of which is composed of myriads of small cosmical bodies, probably intersect our Earth's orbit in the same manner as Biela's comet.
The system of Saturn's satellites shows us likewise a group of immense width, composed of most intimately-connected cosmical bodies.
The recognition of the cosmicalrelations has also modified the views of personal survival.
In this cosmical dust-cloud we inhabit, whose each speck is a sun, man’s destiny plays a microscopic part.
Humanity is not a mere local incident in an endless and aimless series of cosmical changes.
But just as in the case of a man we can tell what organs are vital, though we are ignorant what the vital spark may be, so in our great cosmical laws we can say in what their power resides, though we know not really what they are.
The cosmical modus operandi was not creative nor evolutionary, but sexual.
It will hardly do to say with Huxley that the ethical struggle is the reverse of the cosmical process.
Some writers[89] on this subject have suggested that the cosmical use of this plant-creation was the abstraction from the atmosphere of an excess of carbonic acid unfavorable to the animal life subsequently to be introduced.
Many of them are not, however, aware of its precise import in a cosmical point of view.
I have, I trust, shown that the principal objections to the lengthening of the Mosaic days into great cosmical periods are of a character too light and superficial to deserve any regard.
One further question of some interest is--What, according to the theory of long creative days and the testimony of geology, would be the length and precise cosmicalnature of these days?
According also to such aphorisms as, "Excepting cosmical operation because of occasion, and because of non-proximity.
Nichol, in taking quite a different view of the cosmical conditions from any taken in this Discourse--have a very peculiar applicability to the point now at issue.
A man, in this view, becomes mankind; mankind a member of the cosmical family of Intelligences.
Touching comets, in general, let me here suggest, in passing, that we cannot be far wrong in looking upon them as the lightning-flashes of the cosmical Heaven.
The molten lava of volcanoes is the survival of that original cosmical heat.
It must thus have parted with its original stock of cosmical heat with such rapidity as to bring about the final termination of those surface changes which give it so peculiar an aspect.
This was my method of explaining the nature of the action which, at some previous period of the cosmical history of the Moon, had produced those bright radiating lines that diverge from the lunar volcanic craters.
So far as could be observed, there was an entire absence of any agency of change, so that their formation must have remained absolutely intact since the original cosmical heat of the moon had passed rapidly into space.
It is totally without an atmosphere, or of a vapour envelope, such as the earth possesses, and which must have contributed to the conservation of the cosmical heat of the latter orb.
In immediate connection with the above passage, there is another which throws a clear light on Professor Huxley's cosmical views.
The fact that the position of the radiant point does not change with the earth's rotation, places the cosmical origin of the meteors wholly beyond question.
It would seemingly be more in fitness with a cosmical theory to find direct adoration of the principle, without evidence of any previous or concurrent process of deification.
Attempts have been made, with no great success, to discover the cosmical character of the god from the nature of his feasts.
The grandest cosmical functions are ascribed to Varuna.
One of the cosmical relations of our planet which has been more especially prominent in geological speculations relates to the position of the earth's axis of rotation.
Nor can we tell what other cosmical influences may have lent their aid in the evolution of geological changes.
The geocentric {139} theory of the Church, which elevated man into the supreme place in the universe, and considered creation in general to be solely for his use, naturally led to the misinterpretation of all cosmical phenomena.
If we turn to patristic literature, we find, everywhere, the same superstitions and the same theories of angelic agency and demoniacal interference in cosmical phenomena.
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