. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. r*^ 502. Fist? liili 'W be in ignorance, but at once the earliest and best known are the wise ones of the earth; and when we do encounter fools, they are the degraded aud rebellious oflf-shoots of intelligent sires. The his- tory of man affords conclusive evidence of the wisdom and goodness of Jehovah ; and although there may be much in that history which is difficult to understand, y
. Outlines of natural theology for the use of the Canadian student [microform] : selected and arranged from the most authentic sources. Natural history; Natural theology; Sciences naturelles; Théologie naturelle. r*^ 502. Fist? liili 'W be in ignorance, but at once the earliest and best known are the wise ones of the earth; and when we do encounter fools, they are the degraded aud rebellious oflf-shoots of intelligent sires. The his- tory of man affords conclusive evidence of the wisdom and goodness of Jehovah ; and although there may be much in that history which is difficult to understand, yet enough may be disclosed to satisfy us, that as children of one family, we have a common Creator and God; whom to serve is the highest privilege ; to worship, the greatest delight. Strange, then, is it to find a being so highly gifted prostituting those very gifts, and instead of |the one family uniting in one common union of good, they l;iave basely permitted a diversity of evil to pervert and mar their happiness. Mind and body alike have become corrupt; and each, shut up in the spheres of their own degradation, have become centres from whence flow, in rapid descent, the accumulating con- sequences of vice. Such are the divisions at the pre- sent time, and so complete the isolation of races, that strong temptation inclines the more intellectual and civilised to suppose their fallen and brutalised kindred to be members of another stock. Swift is declen- sion : deterioration rapidly supervenes on the fall from civilisation. The time which has elapsed since the creation of man has sufficed to bring him under the influence of those external circumstances ^hich surround him : and these, together with the. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bovell, James, 1817-1880. [Toronto? : s. n. ]
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