Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No doubt the theory of verbal inspiration is a natural consequence of the too general sys- tem of breaking up the Scripture record into a vast number of small fragments, each of which is made to furnish an appropriate motto or text for a discourse. A modern writer on this sub- ject speaks as follows :—1 ‘ If the Bible be, as we suppose, a record of progressive and continuous revelation, it will carry with it traces of the action of the same intelligence which reveals itself in Nature. What do we find there f Nature is a living and complex whole, absolutely unintelligible in fragments, and requiring alike for its scientific explanation and highest practical use connected study of its unity. No man in his senses would now think of treating any science after the fashion in which many of us treat the Divine Revelation, by means exclusively of orations on isolated facts and phenomena.’ And the same writer tells us that ‘ the Bible as 1 On Connected Expla7iation of Holy Scripture, by the Rev. Edward White.
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