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- Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that…
- The nineteenth century will ever be known as the one in which the influences of science were first fully realised in civilised communities; the scientific…
- Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of almost anonymous American…
- It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What…
- If the twentieth century is to be better than the nineteenth, it will be because there are among us men who walk in Priestley's footsteps....To…
- Nostalgia is one of the great enemies of clear thinking about the family. The disruption of families in the nineteenth century through death, separation, and…
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- One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six… — Mortimer Adler
- There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our… — John F. Kennedy
- Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat… — Unknown Author
- Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove… — Carl Sagan
- The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current… — Carl Ally
- Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in… — Robert Higgs
- A man who has once looked with the archaeological eye will never see quite normally. He will be wounded by what other… — Loren Eiseley
- In the great debates of early-nineteenth century geology, catastrophists followed the stereotypical method of objective science-empirical literalism. They believed what they saw,… — Stephen Jay Gould