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The first danger dissolved with the submission, which Cyrene sent to meet him as he moved into Marmarica to the attack; the second was conjured by the creation of the port of Alexandria, perhaps the most signal act of Alexander's life, seeing to what stature the city would grow, what part play in the development of Greek and Jew, and what vigour retain to this day.
But even the buzzing of the midge, though the insect may be harmless compared with its more poison-laden fellows, can divert the mind from more important things. To disregard entirely the world of ephemera, and their several actions and effects were to deny the entirety of the scheme of creation.
So the church was increased by a whole half, and the fraction of a chicken type of the groaning creation, waiting for the sonship. The three gathered to read and pray. And almost always there was some creature with them in the arms or hands of Dawtie.
Ver. 5. "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew." Thus it was in the first creation; they therefore became neither herbs nor trees, by the course of nature, but by the creation of God.
And so, in "The Vestiges," Natural Law is substituted for Supernatural Interposition, not only in the common course of Providence, but in the stupendous work of Creation itself.
You cannot reform society from the bottom; you must begin at the top. Man, physically considered, is merely an animal, and the law of his life is identical with that of the brute creation. Continence in man or woman is a violation of nature's edicts, a sacrifice made by the individual to the necessities of civilization.
He has ordained for men, according to their lives, rewards and punishments; he will raise all the dead that have ever lived from the creation of the world, will command them to reassume their bodies, and thereupon adjudge them to felicity that has so end, or to eternal flames. The fires of hell are those hidden flames which the earth shuts up in her bosom.
However, from the consideration of such animals as lie within the compass of our knowledge, we might easily form a conclusion of the rest, that the same variety of wisdom and goodness runs through the whole creation, and puts every creature in a condition to provide for its safety and subsistence in its proper station.
Now he could begin to recognize the truth that with a black beast of his own creation he had frightened himself; and he laughed with a nervous shudder. But when the doctor was gone he again became anxious. "Caroline, didn't he ask if there had ever been any insanity in my family?" "Why, no; he didn't hint at such a thing." "I must have dreamed it, then. But what makes me dream such strange things?
The heat, light, and atmospheres of the natural world simply open the seeds, keep their products in a state of expansion, and clothe them with the matters that give them fixedness. Natural forces contribute nothing whatever towards forming this image of creation, for the image of creation is spiritual.
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