| 单词 | cosmogony |
| 例句 | “But more important was the feeling of the absolute freedom, creative extravagance even, hundreds of ships, creatures, parallel worlds, a complete cosmogony.” C?dric Delsaux?s Photographs of ?Star Wars? on Earth 2011-12-11T00:53:02Z “Voyage of Time” is, as its title suggests, a sort of cinematic cosmogony, a lyrical collage that looks at a broad spectrum of natural phenomena artistically and imaginatively. Terrence Malick’s Metaphysical Journey Into Nature 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z While myth is fiction posing as history and cosmogony, its function is to connect humans with the divine. Review | Contemplating gods and hunters, guilt and theater 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The document, however, that gives the most valuable information as to the cosmogony of the Mexicans is one known as "Codex Vaticanus," from the library where it is preserved. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z In the cosmogonies of many ancient peoples there was a plurality of heavens, probably among the earlier Hebrews, the idea being elaborated in rabbinical literature, among the Babylonians and in Zoroastrianism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z But science is taught, and science confutes the Hindoo cosmogony. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z On the other hand it is in striking contrast to the other cosmogonies which have been handed down from pre-scientific ages. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z In the name of utility, Socrates diverted the intellect of antiquity from the fantastic cosmogonies with which it had long been occupied, to the study of the moral nature of man. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z These cosmogonies narrate a contest between man and Nature, in which the former fell, and must ever fall, for the laws of Sol and his seasons none can resist.”... The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z As in the cosmogony of one of the Egyptian Trinities she was the Third Person, as Supreme Love, the Greeks held her to be the same as Aphrodite. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z A theory, therefore, which will satisfactorily account for the origin and development of spiral nebul� must command recognition as of great importance in the cosmogony. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z For De Gourmont the Darwinian notion that man is at the topmost notch of creation is as antique and absurd as most cosmogonies; indeed, it is the Asiatic egocentric idea of creation. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The extent to which the egg, received as a symbol, entered into the early cosmogonies will appear in another and more appropriate connection. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z For the deck, be it known, is to the First officer the most important thing in the cosmogony, and there is probably nothing he would not sacrifice to its complexion. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z Agassiz will no longer hesitate to declare the Mosaic cosmogony utterly inconsistent with the demonstrated truths of geology, and will cease pretending any reverence for the Jewish Scriptures. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z Obviously this relation, or contra-relation of stars and nebul� on such a vast scale is not accidental, and it also must be duly accounted for in the true theory of the cosmogony. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z He has studied geology, and yet he asserts the truth of the Mosaic cosmogony. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It must be admitted that, in the few meagre and imperfect accounts which we have of the notions of cosmogony entertained by the American nations, we have no distinct allusion to it. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z All the cow- ardly apologists for the cosmogony of Moses do not amount to as much in the world of thought as Ernst Haeckel. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z His cosmogony was gone; his cosmos itself was dispersed and disjointed; creation, nay, the Creator Himself, seemed to fade away slowly into nonentity before him. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z The vast multitude of the spiral nebul� indicates clearly their importance in the theory of the cosmogony, or science of the development of the material universe. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z Modern astronomy, geology, biology, etc., have completely changed the outlines and the horizon of our philosophy, and rendered for ever impossible the popular cosmogonies which, until then, had reigned supreme. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z It was thus received in the early cosmogonies, in all of which the vivification of the Mundane Egg constituted the act of creation; from it sprang the world resplendent in glory and teeming with life. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z It was while this smashing was working its way into men’s minds that Milton wrote his poem, and he, like Dante, centred it on a cosmogony. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z As every oriental country had its cosmogony, accounting very clearly, though contrarily to each other, for the origin of things, so all had traditionary floods, which each nation quoted as proof of its antiquity.* Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The cosmogony of the present day sets no outer limit to the solar system, and some astronomers advocate the existence of many trans-Neptunian planets. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z These discriminations made, Schopenhauer offers us a scientific cosmogony beginning with the nebular hypothesis and ending with an outline of organic evolution. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Aristophanes, in his Comedy of the Birds, is thought to have given the notions of cosmogony, ancient even in his days. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z I have hitherto seen no reason to doubt that everything which has happened in cosmogony is capable of a natural explanation. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z MOD.—It must be allowed that the Bible cosmogony and its stories about deity, origin of man, etc., appear puerile, contradictory, and irrational, unless they can be resolved into planetary allegories. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The range of planetary masses, in fact, is very curious, and is doubtless of much significance in the cosmogony, with which we deal later. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z He has no cosmogony, like that of Hartmann, ending in a general redemption of the universe by such a collective act. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The egg does not, however, appear except in the earlier cosmogonies. Ophiolatreia An Account of the Rites and Mysteries Connected with the Origin, Rise, and Development of Serpent Worship in Various Parts of the World 2012-03-01T03:00:28.303Z They were, indeed, generally despised by the people round about them, who would no more think of adopting Jewish fables than we should care to learn theology and cosmogony from African negroes. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z The Jewish creation is a mere copy of cosmogonies of eastern countries, all of whom, China excepted, pretend to account for the origin of things. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z The cosmogony makes Earth and Sea sister and brother. Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland 2011-10-31T02:00:30.820Z If there is no testable means of determining which creation cosmogony is correct, perhaps they are all astounding science fictions. The Real Science behind Scientology 2011-10-20T13:45:00.447Z An important feature in the cosmogony of Leibnitz is the prominent place which he assigned to organic remains in the stratified rocks of the crust. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The occasion of this outburst of fanaticism was the approaching publication of a work in which he had dared to question the received opinions of theologians and schoolmen, in regard to cosmogony. Scientific Culture, and Other Essays Second Edition; with Additions 2011-09-17T02:00:31.747Z The later cosmogony is represented in the first tablet of the Creation story where the old gods are resolved into cosmical elements. A Primer of Assyriology 2011-09-14T02:00:47.990Z Have we not recently witnessed the foundation of a whole school of “thinkers”—wretched courtiers, too, and people of unclean lives—who have constructed a whole cosmogony for their sole use? God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z Pallas and Bergmann have written much on the religious cosmogony of the Kalmucks; we will follow them in their investigations, and endeavour to complete them by means of our own observations. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Astronomy, through its relation to the Mosaic cosmogony, belongs to this class; but its force had been felt long before the opening of the period. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Hence, though heaven knows by no fault of the originals, the insane cosmogony, blatant mythology, and sonorous aberration of thoughts and theories. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z In the cosmogony of Hermopolis the universe and the gods that direct it are the creation of his word, which later ages refined into the sound of his voice. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z He is easily supreme in the cosmogony of his enchantments. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z During the greater part of his lectureship at Padua, Galileo taught according to the Ptolemaic cosmogony out of compliance with popular feeling, though himself a Copernican. The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe 2011-04-03T02:00:15.847Z To the inquiry how mankind became possessed of fire, the cosmogonies, those records of pristine speculative thought, do not give any reply which would not be found in the relations of travellers and historians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z But underlying his practical solution was a fantastic cosmogony and psychology. Socialism and Democracy in Europe 2011-03-15T02:00:12.887Z That cosmogony rested on the doctrine of a contest between the powers of light and darkness, of order and chaos, and on the final victory of the gods of light. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Probably no other European poet has interpreted with so much exactitude, because with so intense a sympathy, the cosmogony and mythology of the Puranas, with their mystic genealogies of gods and kings. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z In the course of Mrs. Rossiter's confidences I began to see a vast cosmogony beyond my own personal sun, with J. Howard Brokenshire as the pivot of the new universe. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Among all heathen nations of antiquity, the belief in a primeval chaos was almost universal; and from the heathen philosophers it was transmitted to the Christian world, and incorporated with the Mosaic cosmogony. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z A collection of oracles, a theogony, an epic poem on the Argonautic expedition, prose works on purifications and sacrifices, and a cosmogony, were attributed to him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The Persian Gulf, it was believed, was the cradle of Babylonian culture; it was also the source of that cosmogony which saw in the deep the “mother” of all things. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z It is interesting, however, as revealing their notions of cosmogony, the division of the day into quartads, and their impressions of general geography. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-06T03:01:02.343Z One thing, however, is certain, namely, that these cosmogonies are not Aztec. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z The cosmogony of this theory is embraced in what is denominated the nebular hypothesis, propounded by the eminent mathematician La Place. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The transmigration of souls seems to be believed in by some tribes; and some have a system of successive heavens rising one above the other very much in the style of the Hindu cosmogony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z They were painted on the walls of the temple of Bel at Babylon, and their existence formed an essential part of the Babylonian cosmogony. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z For example, there is no proof that the "Mosaic" cosmogony was known to the Israelites of Solomon's time. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z I need not stay to point out what close analogies these two conceptions find in several of the cosmogonies of the Old World. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru 2011-01-02T03:00:21.577Z This interpretation corresponds remarkably with the traditional cosmogonies of some heathen nations, as the ancient Etruscans and modern Hindoos; and it was also adopted by Philo and other Jewish writers. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Plutarch’s theory of creation is, in the main, that of the Timaeus, with mingled elements of Stoic cosmogony. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The deities who were derived from him in the priestly cosmogony were fetched from elsewhere. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z Corresponds with Abyss, or Chaos; the principle of destruction in Cymric cosmogony, 333 Answerer, The. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race The ready answer to this particular charge is that Cosmas' conception of the universe belonged to cosmogony and not theology, and further that it had no influence on subsequent thought. The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time It would be quite possible to get together a committee that would give us the compact and clear cosmogony of history that is needed. The Salvaging Of Civilisation He can be suspected of no prejudices which would prevent him from accepting Professor Haeckel's cosmogony, if only he found the evidence satisfactory. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer It is only in the institutes of Manu, where we find the system of castes propounded in its complete development, that Brahmā has his definite place assigned to him in the cosmogony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The innermost of three concentric circles representing the totality of being in the Cymric cosmogony—the stage of struggle and evolution, 333 Abundance. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race Before this era we have, of course, the mythologies, cosmogonies, and theologies of the poets. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy In the Orphic cosmogony the origin of all goes back to Chronos, the personification of time, who produces Aether and Chaos. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" He is the son of Luonnotar, the daughter of Nature, who answers to the first woman of the Iroquois cosmogony. Custom and Myth New Edition An attempt will be made in the sequel of this work to demonstrate that geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the mode of the first creation of man differ from history. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In both, if in different measure, a sceptical vein is inherent; but in Lucretius this arms itself in logic, and he appears in his cosmogony as a philosophical atheist. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The Phoenician cosmogony attributed to Sancuniathon has the void, the deep, and the brooding Spirit; and one of the terms employed, "baau," is the same with the Hebrew "bohu," void, if read without the points. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Hence some of the ancient Jewish teachers came under the influence of Babylonian and Egyptian cosmogonies in their later Hellenistic forms, and resorted to the theory of intermediary forces. Jewish Theology Religionists, on the one hand, say that if science has discovered, or professes to have discovered, anything at variance with the Mosaic cosmogony, it is not to be believed. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. He by no means meant to contend with some freethinkers, who, to upset the Mosaic cosmogony, asserted that the different races of men were not fruitful if intermixed beyond a given and very near point. Discussion on American Slavery This concept of The Brain's, of course, corresponds fairly closely to the cosmogony of modern physics; but The Brain goes much farther than that. The Brain Chaos, the equivalent of the Hebrew "desolation and emptiness," figures largely in all ancient cosmogonies. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Ancient heathen conceptions deified nature, indeed, but they knew only a cosmogony, that is, a process of birth and growth of the world. Jewish Theology Its astronomy, cosmogony, physiology, are so puerile as to invite our mirth, if the occasion did not forbid. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Jewish thinkers would have been attracted by the emphatic assertion of the creatorship of the One God in the royal Persian inscriptions more than by the traditional cosmogony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" According to the cosmogony of the Babylonians the earth was pictured as a huge mountain. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations It may, however, be objected that by the introduction of a cosmogony the Bible exposes itself to a conflict with science, and that thereby injury results both to science and to religion. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science These are associated with the name of Orpheus, and are commonly classed together as Orphic cosmogonies. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance Another cosmogony is introduced, which, to complete the perplexity, is, in many important features, in direct contradiction to the former. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning This may illustrate the fact that the dragon is also unmentioned in the Hebrew cosmogony; to some writers the dragon-element may have seemed grotesque and inappropriate. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" There had been from of old cosmogonies, theories as to how the world had taken shape out of primeval chaos. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse That the Mosaic cosmogony must be considered, like the prophecies of the Bible, to claim the rank of inspired teaching, and must depend for its authority on the maintenance of that claim. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science In pagan cosmogonies the Creator is always colored blue. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Bishop Colenso, in his very learned work on the Pentateuch, speaking on this subject, says: "The following are the most noticeable points of difference between the two cosmogonies: "1. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning In spite of the frequent overgrowth of a luxuriant imagination, the leading ideas of really primitive cosmogonies are extremely simple. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" At the time the nomads had no cosmogony or theories. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Exhumed by Layard and Smith, they are now among the collections of the British Museum, and their decipherment is throwing a new and strange light on the cosmogony and religions of the early East. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science Humboldt found some analogy between the Aztec theory of the universe, as taught by the priests, and the Asiatic "cosmogonies." The Story of Extinct Civilizations of the West Already we perceive the tendency of Greek philosophy to shape itself into systems of cosmogony, founded upon the disturbance Origin of biology. of the chaotic matter by heat and cold. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Phoenician and Greek.—Phoenician cosmogonies would appear, from the notices which have come down to us,24 to have been composite. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Writing in 1858, he said of his Considerations on Volcanos:— 'In that work unfortunately were included some speculations on theoretic cosmogony, which the public mind was not at that time prepared to entertain. The Coming of Evolution The Story of a Great Revolution in Science They contain in the first place a primitive cosmogony, a rude attempt at explaining nature, and they furthermore contain a statement of the public morality born and developed within the mass of the people. The Place of Anarchism in Socialistic Evolution An Address Delivered in Paris Mr. Wells explicitly renounces from the outset any dealings with "cosmogony." God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' From this point his system became a cosmogony, showing how the elements and fogs, stones, stars, and the sea, were produced. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition But we are far from having exhausted the evidence of Babylonian influence on the Hebrew cosmogony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" We might call them the four great cosmogonies or the four modern epics of evolution. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution In the beginning the Hebrew cosmogony suggested an argument for the superiority of the Platonic theory over the Mosaic. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Whence came the wisdom which enabled the writer in a pre-scientific age to set forth a cosmogony in such a fashion that it does not contradict the latest findings of the geologist? Christ, Christianity and the Bible Its astronomy, cosmogony, physiology, are so puerile as to invite our mirth if the occasion did not forbid. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition Let us now collect specimens of the evidence for different varieties of cosmogony, ranging from those of the Red Indian tribes to that of the people of Israel. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The world in the Stoic cosmogony followed its destined course, until at last the elemental fire consumed it in the secular blaze, which became for mediæval Christianity the Dies irae. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle So, true scientific discoveries have so completely vindicated the Mosaic cosmogony that it leaves no chance for any, outside of three classes, to object. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880 Cuvier, the founder of paleontology, says in his discourse on the revolutions of the globe, “Moses has left us a cosmogony, the exactitude of which is most wonderfully confirmed every day.” Christ, Christianity and the Bible Our readers need not fear that we shall overwhelm them with all the institutions, plans, projects, arrangements—the complete cosmogony, in short, of this most laborious of the tribe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Each of these deserves a comment which we cannot, however, here give, and the third may seem to suggest direct influence of the Iranian upon the Jewish cosmogony. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The cosmogony of Cosmas was also that of the doctors of Salamanca; and the views of Columbus were denounced as heterodox because they failed to conform to it. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed The general outcome of Mr. Darwin's researches has been to leave Laplace's cosmogony untouched. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Book i. is consecrated to the cosmogony, Book iii. to the Second Chaldee Empire. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 God was with Moses; his cosmogony bears evidence of inspiration. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 It is tempting, but incorrect, to suppose that a docile Israelitish writer accepted one of the chief forms of the Babylonian cosmogony, merely omitting its polytheism and substituting “Yahweh” for “Marduk.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" And such is that cosmogony and astronomy of the Brahmins to which their religion, in its character as a revelation, stands committed, and in which a very lenient criticism has found the geologic revolutions. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed But recent science raises many objections to the details, if it supplies some degree of confirmation to the fundamental idea of Laplace's cosmogony. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The geologist, after investigating the secrets of the earth, triumphantly tells us that he has accumulated an overwhelming mass of facts to refute the biblical cosmogony, and thus subvert the authority of the inspired record. Public School Education Compare his narrative with the cosmogonies of the ancient nations. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 The cosmogony of the ancient Phœnicians is evidently similar to the account of creation given by Moses, and a like assertion may be made respecting the ancient Greek philosophy. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life In half-civilized peoples elaborate cosmogonies arise, in which the sky is introduced along with sun, moon, and stars. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The dismemberment motive of the cosmogonies is usually associated with a deluge motive. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts Examining the cosmogonies of the two countries, we find at the outset a striking difference. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era It would be strange if the ancient nations should have no truth in their cosmogonies. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 And now Lucretius shall describe the formation of the different parts of the world according to the cosmogony of Epicurus. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles Not all these details occur in the cosmogony of every tribe or clan, but the purpose of every cosmogony is to account for everything in the origin of which the people are interested. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV A primitive vedic cosmogony makes the world arise from the parts of the body of a giant. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts But seeing this geocentric cosmogony has been impossible for centuries past, why should we go on trying to squeeze Paul's language so as to mean something else than what it meant at first? The New Theology Next we will give you the cosmogony of the Vedas, as it is presented in what is known as the mystic hymn of the Vedas. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 Dr. Medhurst remarks: "The principle of the Chinese cosmogony seems to be founded on a sexual system of the universe." Moon Lore The great civilized nations, with their well-formed anthropomorphic deities, have constructed elaborate cosmogonies, which commonly begin with the conception of an unshaped mass of material out of which the gods arise and create the world. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The egg is the World Egg that recurs in so many world cosmogonies. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts This form of imagination is produced in two principal ways—in religious conceptions and cosmogonies, and in science. Essay on the Creative Imagination The Phœnician cosmogony presents, first, an ether or a mist diffused in space. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 What an amount of misunderstanding would be obviated if readers of the Bible would bear this in mind when they meet with erroneous conceptions in Hebrew cosmogony. Moon Lore The motif in the Babylonian cosmogony is the bringing of order out of disorder, in which work the creation of light is an incident. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The cosmogony and mythical lore of the Quichés seem to have their root in the beliefs and facts of a time far more ancient than the national beginning of this people. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology His cosmogony seems the work of an omnipotent demiurge fashioning the universe at will. Essay on the Creative Imagination The Egyptian cosmogony presents a principal divinity, whose name was Ptah, the world-creating power, who shaped the cosmic egg, which again appears here, as in the Phœnician. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 In a cosmogony like that of Spencer, intelligence is taken for granted, as matter also at the same time. Creative Evolution The motif of the antagonism between light and darkness appears to be attached to or involved in certain myths, especially the great cosmogonies and stories in which solar deities figure prominently. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV The account of the creation, with every thing else in this cosmogony and mythology, is original, like the civilization to which they belong. Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology But one does not rule out Paradise Lost because Milton's cosmogony is so purely fanciful, nor Dante because of his equally fantastic structure of the Inferno. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Evolution of species from other species is an idea found in heathen mythology; it is also found in the ancient heathen cosmogonies. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 The briefest and only satisfying cosmogony is this: "He spake and it was done." The Pursuit of God When he entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1856, “Mill was in the zenith of his fame and influence”; Hugh Miller was attempting to reconcile the recent discoveries of geology with the Mosaic cosmogony. Historical Essays Even the cosmogony of the Babylonians has been influenced by their surroundings. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs Hariot, who numbered Bishops among his admirers, was accused by zealots of atheism, because his cosmogony was not orthodox. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography He had sixty daughters, twenty-seven of whom married to Kaśyapa produced, according to one of the Indian cosmogonies, all mundane beings. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse The theory is a very plausible one; it is one of the best cosmogonies that the wit of man has ever framed. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' Lactantius was irritated because, in his mind, by education and habit, cosmogony and religion were indissolubly associated, and, therefore, simultaneously disturbed. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The inner meaning of the manner in which the Word was made flesh was given in all the ancient cosmogonies. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity Under some form or other it is expressed or implied in every system of cosmogony and even of geology, from Moses to Thales, and from Thales to Werner. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. They represent the traditional opening, or sipapu, through which, in Pueblo cosmogony, races crawled to the surface of the earth from an underworld. Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 It contradicts the Jewish cosmogony in a few particulars, and is at variance with probability and the ordinary laws of human reasoning in many others. A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' His cosmogony, his manner of tracing, a priori, the development of all things from the absolute, was considered, by those who understand such profundities, to be deficient in accuracy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 In spiritual form this most momentous thought of Christianity had long before been prefigured in the old cosmogonies. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity They very nearly failed to assimilate the Copernican cosmogony. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge It was common sense that inspired Ptolemy's theory of cosmogony. The Servant Problem The Oriental religions, if noticed at all, appeared to be lost in vain cosmogonies. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society The chapters on the mythology and cosmogony of the Norsemen, on the superstitions, slavery, graves, finds, weapons, occupations, feasts, warfare, etc., are intensely interesting. The Land of the Long Night We find the cross first in the ancient cosmogonies. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity The Copernican theory had its practical result in the stimulation of discovery and commerce; its intellectual issue in the weakening of the church's cosmogony, and a discredit of the church's claim to real knowledge. The Chief End of Man The cosmic times and spaces of modern science are more impressive and more mysterious than a Mosaic cosmogony or Plato's crystal spheres. Human Traits and their Social Significance It was a variant of the old traditional cosmogonies. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield What has the conflict about the Hebrew cosmogony, of Genesis, baptismal regeneration, or the validity of orders to do with that serene peace in which religion alone can dwell? Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles It is especially the Timæus that reveals to us how the Platonic cosmogony is connected with the Mysteries. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity We may look at it soberly, assign it place, limit it in a way; it can no longer give us a cosmogony, but unimpaired is its message, "Obey and rejoice!" The Chief End of Man The best critical writers on ancient history have agreed not to throw away the cosmogony and the hierology of Greece. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author O, world! which was and is, what is cosmogony? Don Juan He also mentions a servant girl, quite uneducated and of ordinary intelligence, who nevertheless became a veritable philosopher during mesmeric somnambulism and delivered learned discourses on lofty problems dealing with cosmogony. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution I had long passed my teens, and had seen something of life that is not revealed to poetizing girls, before I could give any logical account of what I read in the book of cosmogony. The Promised Land He dealt in logical, metaphysical, and ethical first principles, in cosmogony and geology, in physics, and chemistry after a fashion, in biology, psychology, sociology, politics, and aesthetics. Memories and Studies In this rôle, he appears in the religious literature—in the epics, the cosmogony, and the ritual—of Babylonia. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Finally, to the remnants of a remainder, in order to apologize for the sudden lurch into cosmology, or cosmogony, in this book, I wish to say that the whole thing hangs inevitably together. Fantasia of the Unconscious He has the same conception of the early condition of the earth as in other cosmogonies. A Short History of Greek Philosophy Page 262 It will not do for us to brush aside contemptuously the notions held by the Hawaiians in religion, cosmogony, and mythology as mere heathen superstitions. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula The central revelation, if I remember rightly, had to do with a sort of putty, by which, according to the Stellato cosmogony, Chaos had been stuck together into a Universe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 When we come to the cosmogony of the Babylonians, it will be seen that this conception of a distinction between the two realms of waters is a fundamental one. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria With this the weightiest argument against the Gnostic cosmogony is already mentioned. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) The narrative in Genesis of creation, compared with other primitive cosmogonies, is rational as well as sublime. The Religious Situation The cosmogony of the southern Polynesians, according to Mr. Tregear, recognized ten papa, or divisions. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula But every cosmogony is just an attempt to simplify matters, by ignoring the existence of these unknown substances, and mysterious forces; a process which science condemns, as utterly unphilosophical and absurd. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Ea and Bel assume therefore conspicuous proportions in the developed Babylonian cosmogony and theology. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Philosophers of Egypt and Phoenicia the authors of old cosmogonies, 667-m. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry To all outward appearance there is an incompatibility between the claims of geology and the Mosaic cosmogony. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology A simple primitive substance, a divinity to mould it—these are the requirements of every cosmogony. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America It tells us that every cosmogony, which the children of theory so laboriously scratch in the sand, must be swept away by the rising tide of science. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Naturalists, who utterly reject the Scriptures as a divine revelation, speak with the highest admiration of the Mosaic account of the creation, as compared with any other cosmogony of the ancient world. What is Darwinism? The world-producing egg figures in all cosmogonies; and modern science has discovered that all animal production is oviparous. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The essay of Goodwin on the Mosaic cosmogony displays the naïve assurance of one who receives the modern critical science from the second or tenth hand. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology The muskrat is also the simple machinery in the cosmogony of the Takahlis of the northwest coast, the Osages and some Algonkin tribes. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America But it presents anxious, careworn, humbled souls with something infinitely more precious than cosmogonies; even an explicit declaration of the love toward them of him who made these worlds. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity The subject grew under his hands and the course extended itself into thirty-five lectures, covering the whole field of natural history, with many short excursions into the realms of biology, embryology, botany, geology and cosmogony. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists Such too was the Ahriman of the Persians; and this revolt of the Evil Principle against the Principle of Good and Light, has been represented in every cosmogony, under many varying forms. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The Mosaic cosmogony is not a matter of great consequence, but on a par with other cosmogonies, none of which are of any intrinsic value. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Some cosmogonies find this in one, some in another personification of divinity. The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America There now, reader, you have the original of the Development Theory, with Vestiges of Creation enough to make half a dozen new infidel cosmogonies, besides the genuine original of Pantheism, from its native soil. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity Religious teachers have ever given to their people a cosmogony that was adapted to their understanding. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Scientists It entered as a primary element into the sacred fables, the cosmogonies and the Mysteries of antiquity. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Its cosmogony was 4,000 years old and practically uninfluenced by modern science, or else at odds with it. Modern Religious Cults and Movements The Younger Edda contains the systematized theogony and cosmogony of our forefathers, while the Elder Edda presents the Odinic faith in a 28 series of lays or rhapsodies. The Younger Edda Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda Scientific astronomy inexorably demolishes the Atheistic scheme for the arrangement of the solar system by accident, commonly known as Buffon's cosmogony. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity In this way search is made for some profoundly metaphysic cosmogony; some ancient beginning of the mythology is sought in which mystery is wisdom and wisdom is mystery. On Limitations To The Use Of Some Anthropologic Data This is only a small part of the ancient cosmogony of the Brahmins. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary We can no more understand the earlier chapters of Genesis without an understanding of Hebrew cosmogony than we can understand Dante without a knowledge of medieval cosmogony. Modern Religious Cults and Movements Absurd enough; but—as every man who is acquainted with old mythical cosmogonies must know—no more absurd than twenty similar guesses on record. Health and Education Astronomy not only exposes the folly of past cosmogonies, but demonstrates the impossibility of framing any true theory of creation, and thus refutes all future cosmogonies. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity His conception was not then less than a cosmogony. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men An easier task than that of "justifying the ways of God to man" by the cosmogony and anthropology of "Paradise Lost." Life of John Milton The Bible was seen to contain contributory elements from general ancient cultures; its cosmogony the generally accepted cosmogony of the time and the region; its codes akin to other and older codes. Modern Religious Cults and Movements The apostle, therefore, felt it necessary to enter his protest against all such cosmogonies. The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution I say, omit the whole of that sentence, because, like the 'cosmogony, or creation of the world,' in the 'Vicar of Wakefield,' it is not much to the purpose. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals But you will see that I shall do something or other—the times and fortune permitting—that, 'like the cosmogony, or creation of the world, will puzzle the philosophers of all ages.' Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals It is a pseudo-scientific cosmogony, akin to those which men have enunciated from the earliest times downwards; and only a little more respectable. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library It lasts for six days, and is supposed to be kept in commemoration of the Creation and the Deluge—events constantly synchronised and confounded in pagan cosmogonies. Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850 A few words, however, may be added upon the subject of the Chaldaean cosmogony. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Thus the devil has his cosmogony as well as the Almighty, and his tradition in opposition to the divine.—ED. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific It is like the cosmogony of the Eastern people which fabled that the earth rests upon the back of an elephant. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant The first book, the "Kojiki," gives us the theology, cosmogony, mythology, and very probably, in its later portions, some outlines of history of the ancient Japanese. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji It was a perfect and detailed microcosm of the world of trade, the cosmogony of commerce in petto. Success A Novel It has been generally seen that this cosmogony bears a remarkable resemblance to the history of Creation contained in the opening chapters of the book of Genesis. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. It is these two—the popular and the scientific—that we mean when we speak of Chinese cosmogony. Myths and Legends of China In truth, this would-be scientific mode of speech is as anthropomorphic as is the cosmogony of Hesiod, only on a smaller scale. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Paying no attention to questions of cosmogony or theogony, the universe is accepted as an ultimate fact. The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji We desire to know neither origins nor ends, we expect no cosmogony and we look for no apocalyptic vision. The Unity of Civilization The third considers the cosmogony revealed by the present state of astronomy; and the fourth compares the Mosaic account of creation with the theory advanced in the preceding lecture. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 The Unwalkable Way leads us to nothing further in the way of a cosmogony. Myths and Legends of China This mixed cosmogony is supposed to indicate a diversity of authorship. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 So much for the cosmogony of the Edda. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology Philo adopts completely and uncritically this theory of transcendental ideas in his philosophical exegesis of the cosmogony in Genesis. Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria When you riddled religion with your scientific objections, did you not forget that religion is something more, far more than a nexus of historical facts or a cosmogony? Aspects of Literature Nor does he hang any cosmogony upon it. Myths and Legends of China They contrast strongly with the later and degrading cosmogonies of degenerate heathen systems, and especially with the grotesque fancies of the subsequent Hindu mythology. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 On this cosmogony, we may remark that it belongs to the class of development, or evolution, but combined with a creation. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology And therefore the Adwaitee philosophers have chiefly considered it in this light, and explained their cosmogony from a subjective point of view. Five Years of Theosophy At the Arts and Crafts Exhibition we find the cosmogony of Moses, not the cosmogony of Darwin. Reviews There are other cosmogonies in Chinese philosophy, but they need not detain us long. Myths and Legends of China In most heathen races there have appeared, in their later stages, grave and grotesque cosmogonies; and a too common impression is, that these represent the real teachings of their sacred books or their earliest traditions. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 The Orphic writings develop, by degrees, a system of cosmogony, in which Time was the first principle of things, from which came chaos and ether. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology We have already referred to the early battles of cosmogony, and to the wars of the rocks and fires and earth and stones. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before What becomes, in the presence of these facts, of the metaphysics and cosmogonies that have succeeded each other for two thousand years? Willis the Pilot This dualistic system, by a simple addition, became a monism, and at the same time furnished the Chinese with a cosmogony. Myths and Legends of China He is the son of Luonnotar, the daughter of Nature, who answers to the first woman of the Iroquois cosmogony. Custom and Myth The Romans, says Döllinger, had no cosmogony of their own; a practical people, they took the world as they found it, and did not trouble themselves about its origin. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology He regarded even the Contessa with suspicion, perhaps merely because she was a woman; and as for Aurora, girls did not count at all in his cosmogony. Whosoever Shall Offend Creation is but systematized decay, And Change is blazoned on the very skies, As in ephemeral telluric scenes, And through the whole cosmogony of worlds, Is written and rewritten! Mountain idylls, and Other Poems The Book or Canon of Changes or Permutations; first, but not the oldest, of the classics, 80, 84, 85; reputed origin of, 84; Fu Hsi and, 84; contains no cosmogony proper, 84, 92 I Tu. Myths and Legends of China Here old cosmogonies, attempts of man to represent to himself the beginning of things, are mingled with the same wild imaginings as are found everywhere in the shape of fairy-tales. Custom and Myth For every ancient theogony, cosmogony, or ontogony is of one kind or the other. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology It includes primitive philosophy—stories of cosmogony and of heroes who shaped the earth; primitive annals—migration stories, tales of culture heroes, of conquest and overrule. The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Their attention has been directed less to physical than to metaphysical disquisitions, and their views of cosmogony have as little of truth as of imagination in their details. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 His cosmogony, 80; his super-tao, 91; his dream, 91 and n., Myths and Legends of China A symbol of the true cosmogony which Philip Aylwin gave to the world!' Aylwin They repeat the cosmogony of the poems, and they relate more fully their mythological legends. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology The regular course of my history, therefore, requires that I should proceed to notice the cosmogony or formation of this our globe. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Though the author is influenced by Jewish cosmogony, his system, as such, is almost purely Neo-Platonic. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 The Plan of the Grand Terminus; explanation of, 86; and Chinese cosmogony, 92. Myths and Legends of China The cosmogony of the @Rg-Veda may be looked at from two aspects, the mythological and the philosophical. A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 As to all other cosmogonies, Egyptian, Indian, and Buddhistic, nothing can be more opposed in principle and in detail than they are to the severe and stately simplicity and directness of the Mosaic. Creation and Its Records But then his conception was nothing less than a complete cosmogony. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 With these principles there was, originally, in the Stoic philosophy conjoined a considerable body of logic, cosmogony, and paradox. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Many such fables concerning the cosmogony were current among the races of the lower Euphrates, who seem to have belonged to three different types. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Other agreements between the two cosmogonies will be pointed out below. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 The geological difficulties of the Mosaic cosmogony were also at that time exciting attention. Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed The Chaldean cosmogony taught that in the beginning "all was darkness and water." The Symbolism of Freemasonry Its use dates from the time when the cosmogony was thought to be young and life to be of very recent appearance. Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development Another striking trait of the Mosaic cosmogony is its unbroken wholeness or unity…. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers The poet has put a cosmogony in an idyll. The Aspirations of Jean Servien Mrs. Marvell's classification of the world into the visited and the unvisited was as obsolete as a mediaeval cosmogony. The Custom of the Country Genesis and the cosmogonies," says Portal, "mention the antagonism of light and darkness. The Symbolism of Freemasonry The myth which I have here given in brief is a prominent one in Aztec cosmogony, and is known as that of the Ages of the World or the Suns. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Other cosmogonies, though bearing unmistakable evidence of their descent from the Mosaic, have had successive deposits, in successive series, of mythological strata. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Still another type of myth is associated with cosmogony and natural phenomena. Philippine Folk-Tales He uses strange tools in His cosmogony: but He does not use them in vain. Literary and General Lectures and Essays The Cabalists gave a prominent place to light in their system of cosmogony. The Symbolism of Freemasonry According to their cosmogony, the evolutionary or creative processes involved twelve vast periods of time. The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion Andrew Jackson Davis's cosmogonies, for example, or certain experiences related in the delectable "Reminiscences and Memories of Henry Thomas Butterworth," Lebanon, Ohio, 1886. Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature Science has amply demonstrated the existence of man upon the earth long before the psychozoic era of the Biblical cosmogony; but Prof. Hilprecht is the first to demonstrate the high antiquity of his civilization. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 This view of the general process of creation had come from far, appearing under varying forms in various ancient cosmogonies. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Initiation precedes the communication of knowledge in Masonry, as darkness preceded light in the old cosmogonies. The Symbolism of Freemasonry The first is contained in a fragment of a cosmogony in Berossus, now confirmed in the main by the sixth tablet of the Creation-epic. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 The mystical school of Joseph de Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things which were called the ultra newspapers, would not have failed to declare that Javert was a symbol. Les Misérables And he set forth his doubts about their masters' cosmogony and physical science, his suspicions touching the hidden immorality of the sect. Saint Augustin He then goes on to compare the Hebrew story of creation with the earlier stories developed among kindred peoples, and especially with the pre-existing Assyro-Babylonian cosmogony, and shows that they are from the same source. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom To destroy personal faith in a fine mind previously satisfied with Buddhist cosmogony, because innocent of science, is not extremely difficult. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Huxley complains that the false cosmogony, which will not yield, to the conclusions of scientific research, is derived from the seventh, book of Paradise Lost, rather than, from Genesis. Milton These religions founded upon an infantine cosmogony, and upon a chimerical history of humanity, can they bear confronting with modern astronomy and geology? Amiel's Journal With the Phoenician sages the cosmogony was their theogony and 'vice versa'. Literary Remains, Volume 2 In Brahman cosmogony they were the guardians of the world. Buddhism and Buddhists in China Yet every Saturday's Harbinger is a missive from Brook Farm which tells of other things than the cosmogonies, etc., of which it ostensibly discourses. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis A marriage is generally the first step in cosmogony. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes On this universal illusion, Buddhism founded a gigantic system of cosmogony, establishing an infinity of degrees in the scale of existences from that of pure being without form or quality to the lowest emanations. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities The Greeks agreed with the cosmogonies of the East in deriving all sensible forms from the indistinguishable. Literary Remains, Volume 2 As we know, Milton—who had once met the blind Galileo and always venerated his memory—viewed Copernican astronomy with evident sympathy, even in Paradise Lost itself dismissing the Ptolemaic cosmogony with contempt. Impressions and Comments In Chinese cosmogony and mythology motherhood finds recognition. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Chaldea, which the peculiar Semitic shepherds crossed in their pilgrimage, presented them with notions from its rich mythology and cosmogony. Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history What could have been more stimulating than to construct the theory of a girlish world out of the fragments of this Titanic cosmogony? Crucial Instances The society in which he appeared had, until just before his day, accepted a narrow cosmogony, quite unknown to its ancestors. First and Last Yet it is precisely on the basis of that discredited cosmogony that the whole structure of Paradise Lost is built. Impressions and Comments Even then it suggests cosmogony, mechanics, physics, which are not romantic, except in so far as there may be romance of the intellect. The Jewel City The fact of a Creator is the fundamental teaching of its cosmogony. Studies in the Life of the Christian Hawthorne, however, has made a long stride beyond Darwin, for he has endeavored to reconcile this view of creation with the Mosaic cosmogony; and it must be admitted that he has been fairly successful. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne We are not to look to Genesis for a scientific cosmogony, and are not to be disturbed by physicists' criticisms on it as such. Expositions of Holy Scripture Mahomet was familiar with Jewish cosmogony from his knowledge of their faith within his own land, and he had heard dimly of the Christian principles during his Syrian journey. Mahomet Founder of Islam All the old mythic cosmogonies are strangely suggestive and full of mystic import,—that of Northern Odinism more than any other. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Huxley says that the cosmogony which stubbornly resists the conclusions of science, is due rather to the account in Paradise Lost than to Genesis. Halleck's New English Literature Absurd enough: but—as every man who is acquainted with old mythical cosmogonies must know—no more absurd than twenty similar guesses on record. Scientific Essays and Lectures Science began with the adventures of free-thinking speculators, who revolted against religious cosmogonies and superstitions. The Glands Regulating Personality When we turn from the Algonquin family of tribes to that of the Iroquois, we find another cosmogony, and other conceptions of spiritual existence. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century Take the mythic cosmogonies of ancient Greece, Scandinavia, and India, and the geologies and astronomies of the present day, and compare their pages, changing things personal into things impersonal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 The Mosaic cosmogony, indeed, gives the succession of natural births; and probably the general outline of such a succession will be more and more confirmed as geology advances. Note Book of an English Opium-Eater Contrasted with this hardly heathen cosmogony, which shows recent Bible influence throughout, the Algonquin narrative reads like a song from the Edda. Algonquin Legends of New England Science and criticism have raised the veil of the Mosaic cosmogony and revealed to us the physical origin of man. Lectures and Essays The Delawares, an Algonquin tribe, seem to have borrowed somewhat of the Iroquois cosmogony, since they believed that the earth was formed on the back of a tortoise. The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century I remember that I had a sort of cosmogony of my own when I was a mere boy. Our Friend John Burroughs All white-skinned nations begin their cosmogony by white men; they allege that the negroes and all tawny people have been blackened or embrowned by the excessive heat of the sun. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 He did not disbelieve it; he would have been shocked to hear such a thing asserted of him: but he happened to be busy believing something else—geometry, conic sections, cosmogonies, psychologies, and what not. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face We do not seek to build upon it systems of cosmogony, chronology, astronomy, and natural history. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 What's the first gospel given to man at the creation in your popular cosmogonies? Philistia While the philosophical concepts of ancient India, concerning religion and cosmogony, are to some extent familiar and appreciated in these countries, its psychology, intimately related with its religion and metaphysics, is comparatively unknown. AE in the Irish Theosophist Practically, Canon Driver, as a theologian and Hebrew scholar, gives up the physical truth of the Pentateuchal cosmogony altogether. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 ALL the cosmogonies begin with an Age of Darkness; a damp, cold, rainy, dismal time. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel I have still asserted, that we have no data to establish any system of cosmogony. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Religious institutions are things to be legitimately distinguished from the creeds and cosmogonies with which one finds them associated. First and Last Things The document, however, that gives the most valuable information," says Lenormant, "as to the cosmogony of the Mexicans is one known as 'Codex Vaticanus,' from the library where it is preserved. Atlantis : the antediluvian world Canon Driver's article contains as clear and candid a statement as I could wish of the position of the Pentateuchal cosmogony from his point of view. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 More, much more would have to go than the Mosaic cosmogony of the first chapter of Genesis. Australia Felix Or can we ever hope to erect a system of cosmogony, that will be liable to no exceptions, and will contain no circumstance repugnant to our limited and imperfect experience of the analogy of Nature? Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion The cosmogony from which such an idea was derived was simple enough. Roman and the Teuton All so-called "revealed" religions consist mainly of three portions, a cosmogony more or less mythical, a history more or less falsified and a moral code more or less pure. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 "The cosmogony of the world," etc., as we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 05 Thee is another cosmogony, or account of the creation, according to which Earth, Erebus, and Love were the first of beings. Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable If I rest my system of cosmogony on the former, preferably to the latter, it is at my choice. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion This is just what has been shown again and again to be the history of German Pantheism; it is a mere barrel-organ repetition of the Brahman metaphysics found in Hindu cosmogonies. Canterbury Pieces Its cosmogony is a myth read literally: its history is, for the most part, a highly immoral distortion, and its ethics are those of the Talmudic Hebrews. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 Modern investigators, principally in Germany and France, find in the Edda a complete system of cosmogony and of a religion almost inspired, so beautiful do they make it. Irish Race in the Past and the Present It is not my intention to attempt a discussion of the theogony of the deities nor the cosmogony of the world. The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world Here is a species of cosmogony, which appears to us ridiculous; because a spider is a little contemptible animal, whose operations we are never likely to take for a model of the whole universe. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion Nothing can be easier or more delusive than to explain all this wild part of the Orphic cosmogony as an allegorical veil of any modern ideas we choose to select. Myth, Ritual and Religion — Volume 1 And did he not talk a long string of learning about Greek and cosmogony, and the world?' The Vicar of Wakefield He also states that they possessed a cosmogony in which the belief that the sun was a fixed body, with the earth revolving around it, was a prominent feature. The Naturalist on the River Amazons And when the philosopher takes the elevator down his mind is broader, his heart is at peace, and his conception of the cosmogony of creation is as wide as the buckle of Orion's summer belt. Strictly business: more stories of the four million And this very consideration too, continued PHILO, which we have stumbled on in the course of the argument, suggests a new hypothesis of cosmogony, that is not absolutely absurd and improbable. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion This was the average attitude of fairly educated young men and women towards the Mosaic cosmogony fifty, forty, or even twenty years ago. The Way of All Flesh The only parallel this Egyptian myth of Creation presents to the Hebrew cosmogony is in its picture of the primaeval water, corresponding to the watery chaos of Genesis i. Legends of Babylon and Egypt in relation to Hebrew tradition As a philosopher, however, Nietzsche does not stand or fall by his objections to the Darwinian or Spencerian cosmogony. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none To be either is disturbing to the cosmogony of creation. Strictly business: more stories of the four million I could not accustom myself to your cosmogony either, for it seems to me fitter for a camel-driver on the Syrian sands than for a disciple of Aristarchus of Samos. Penguin Island The Elder Edda presents the Norse cosmogony, the doctrines of the Odinic mythology, and the lives and doings of the gods. Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Like space it has been realized gradually: in the Homeric poems, or even in the Hesiodic cosmogony, there is no more notion of time than of space. Theaetetus Each separate part of Egypt had its own hierarchy of gods, and more or less its own explanations of cosmogony. A History of Science — Volume 1 Such, however, is not the case, neither is there anything true, or even approaching the truth, in the cosmogony given in the work in question. The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 It is," resumed the Lord, "a manner of speaking in accordance with my old cosmogony and one which I cannot give up without losing my immutability. Penguin Island Fate had already done her share when she arranged his atoms in the cosmogony of creation as the grandson of Lucien Briscoe. Roads of Destiny The Hesiodic and Orphic cosmogonies were a phase of thought intermediate between mythology and philosophy and had a great influence on the beginnings of knowledge. Timaeus It may be that the simple, happy lives they led were too opposed to the general scheme of outside human life to find acceptance or a place in our cosmogony. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 People who leave the scene of an accident with the ambulance have not genuine caoutchouc in the cosmogony of their necks. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Perhaps the early Jewish myth-makers had some such thought in mind when they wrote their idyl of the cosmogony. The Soul of the Far East But not only is reference to the supernatural favoured by traditional cosmogony, but because of certain psychological features of the individual himself there is a tendency towards supernatural explanations of the introspective observations. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 Sacred cosmogony regards the formation and modeling of the earth as the direct act of God; it rejects the intervention of secondary causes in those events. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science For his unquiet days, I presume, the seven—or is it nine?—crystal spheres of Alexandrian cosmogony would afford, but a wretchedly straitened space. Notes on Life and Letters The new religion has but disentangled the idea of him from the absolutes and infinities and mysteries of the Christian theologians; from mythological virgin births and the cosmogonies and intellectual pretentiousness of a vanished age. God the Invisible King For this, it is not essential that the victim's mind be pervaded by the infantine cosmogony which parades often as religious truth. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 |
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