Each kalpa of creation is called a day of Brahma; each kalpa of destruction, a night of Brahma.
But if there be any thing sure in science at all, it is that the material creation is inconceivably vast, including innumerable systems, and all governed by invariable laws.
The appearance of the creation to man is not vaster than his perception of it.
In the minds of most intelligent Christians, even of those who still cling to the old Orthodox dogmas, the day of judgment has been put forward as far as the day of creation has been put backward.
To teach that Zeus, the universal Father, causing the creation to tremble at the motion of his brow, was formerly an obscure king of Crete, whose tomb was yet visible in that island, would have been utterly absurd.
Agassiz says no higher creature than man is to be expected on earth, because the capacities of the earthly plan of organic creation are completed and exhausted with him.
Does not the esteemed author see that this would not be a resurrection of the old bodies, but a creation of new ones 20 Liebig, Animal Chemistry, sect.
Of course, ultimately the fuel will be all expended; then the forces of the system will expire, and the creation will die.
Therefore, unless the rational creation is mendacious, to be deified, is, in some mystical but true sense, the final destiny of all souls.
The whole creation was esteemed a temporary theatre for the enactment of the sublime drama of the fall and redemption of man.
As long as the creation rolls in space, and conscious beings live and die, that bequeathal will tell its good or evil tale of him.
Yet even now he would not have abandoned it at any price; the joy of creation compensated him richly for suffering and disappointment.
The power that calls creation to life, and maintains it, has for me long had nothing in common with those beings like mortals whom the multitude designates by the name of divinities.
I don't even care which of the two was my own personal friend's grandfather, and how much less can I take an interest in this imaginary progenitor of the creation of an author's brain?
That most beautiful creation of Nature in her sweetest mood--she must have got up with the sun on a fine summer morning--was reposing in his box round my neck as usual.
We should be in possession of a new clue to guide us in the creation of the man of the coming world.
In so doing we shall each of us be contributing, however humbly, to "one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
The destruction of genius and its creation alike elude the eugenist.
Dawn of Creation and of Worship," in Nineteenth Century.
It proposed in terms the creation of an Irish parliament.
This principle was often used in the later controversy as a recognition by Lord Salisbury that the creation of a great central body would be a safer policy than the mere extension of self-government in Irish counties.
The case of the animal creation had a charm for him, and in his first chapter he opens, without committing himself, the idea of their possible elevation to a much higher state.
There is perhaps the alternative of advising a large creation of peers; but to this there are great objections, even if the Queen were willing.
These terrible disasters, taken in consideration with the great advantages which would accrue were there stations at intervals across the ocean, led to the creation of the commission.
The functions of the Senate, with the restrictions imposed upon it by the creation of a third house, have undergone few changes since your time.
By a careful perusal of the first chapter of Genesis, you will see that God assigned a particular portion of the creation to each day of the week, and that he rested on the seventh day.
Reflect on the works of creation as a whole, and minutely and particularly, and also how they were made.
If the whole creation were blotted out, and God were the only Being in the universe, he would still be perfectly glorious and happy in himself.
There is nothing in our constitution, in the practice of our Church, or in any present emergency, to justify the creation of a new office.
The first account of creationends at the third verse of Gen.
From such Assyrian sources the legends of the creation of the earth and heavens, the Garden of Eden, the making of man from clay and the woman from one of his ribs, the temptation of the serpent, etc.
In the first account the man and woman are created together on the sixth and last day of creation (Gen.
It cannot be denied that the weight of scientific testimony is very largely in favor of the development of man, instead of a miraculous and complete creation at a particular period of time.
St. Augustine held the same views as to the allegorical character of the so-called Mosaic account of the creation and fall, and so did Tertullian, Clement, and Ambrose.
Some portions may have been compiled eight hundred or nine hundred years before Christ, but not the two contradictory accounts of the creation and fall of man.
In the creation of the 'atmosphere' of the play M.
The water polypus may therefore be considered as the line where the animal creation ends and that of plants begin.
In the first place it means business; it is the creation of a goose which can lay golden eggs, and it is, in the second place, a creation which reflects no little glory on the creators.
There is an old and wonderful book which describes the creation of the world in poetic language; and when I read that description it makes me feel sure that something like this was purposely woven into the very web of life.
On the anniversary of the creation of the 2d Raiders, Carlson addressed his men in a “Gung Ho” meeting.
However, the Commandant did authorize the creation of two additional battalions of raiders.
Sidebar (page 29): The Raider Patch The use of Marine Corps shoulder patches in World War II originated with the creation of the 1st Marine Division insignia following the Guadalcanal campaign.
In January, the younger Roosevelt wrote to the Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps and recommended creation of “a unit for purposes similar to the British Commandos and the Chinese Guerrillas.
Then, you deny here in the face of these wise men, as you did before your superiors in the New York Presbytery, the creation story of the Bible?
We ain't going to run up the white flag till we have to, and I don't care if he's got the whole creation on his side.
He is utterly devoid of a social sense; utterly unaware of the existence of the forces of capitalism which are causing depravity ten times as fast as all the evangelists in creation can remedy it.
Would Heaven I wot, for it seemeth naught save a marvellous creation of Allah!
Lane begins with Islam from Creation to the present day, and has deservedly won for his Notes the honour of a separate reprint.
The little man plumped up very considerably during the creation of the Tono-Bungay property, but with the increasing excitements that followed that first flotation came dyspepsia and a certain flabbiness and falling away.
He was not there very long until he discovered that the whole scheme of creation seemed to be out of harmony with his needs and comfort.
These were scattered broadcast over the country in cheap editions and the result was the creation of false impressions of the West, and at the same time inflamed the imagination and corrupted the minds of many of the then rising generation.
The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it and say it is safe.
