Typical Forms and Special Ends in Creation (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. NATURE OF THE SPECIAL ADJUSTMENTS. SECT. I.?NEED OF SPECIAL ADJUSTMENTS IN ORDER TO THE BENEFICENT OPERATION OF THE FORCES OF NATURE. " Order is Heaven's first law," and the second is like unto it, that everything serves an end. This is the sum of all science. These are the two mites, even all that she hath, which she throws into the treasury of the Lord; and as she docs so in faith, Eternal Wisdom looks on and commends the deed. As the separate physical sciences advance, they will necessitate the rise of combining sciences to collect their separate truths; and this they may best be able to do under the two heads of order and special end. The science which treats of a certain important department of the first of these has already a suitable name allotted to it, and is called Homology. But we need a word to embrace the whole, and we propose that this be Cosmology?that is, the Science of the Order in the Universe. We are aware that this term has been unfortunately devoted to an unattainable inquiry, which would penetrate into the origin of worlds; but this makes us the more anxious to rescue so excellent a phrase from so degraded a use, and give it a profitable application. The other general science has already an admirable name appropriated to it in Teleology, or the Science of Special Ends. Physical science, at its present advanced stage, seems to be at one with the Word of God, in representing all nature as in a state of constant change, but with principles of order instituted in order to secure its stability. " One Generation Passeth Away, And Another GeneRation Cometh: But The Earth Abideth For Ever. The Sun Also Ariseth, And The Sun Goeth Down, And Hasteth To His Place Where He Arose. The Wind Goeth Toward The South, And Turneth About Unto The North J I...