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1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described; Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies

Edward Sylvester Ellis

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Description:Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Introduction. There are many expressions which, though simple in themselves, must forever remain beyond the grasp of human comprehension. Eternity, that which has neither end nor beginning, baffles the most profound human thought. It is impossible to think of a point beyond which there is absolutely nothing, or to imagine the passing of a million years without bringing us one day or one minute nearer to their close. Suppose that one could fix upon the terminal point, we would still fancy something beyond that, and then some period still more remote would present itself, and so on textit{ad infinitum. The same insurmountable difficulty confronts us when we seek to imagine a First Cause. God was the beginning, and yet it seems to our finite minds, that somethingmust have brought Him into existence, and we conclude that back again of that creating Power must have been another originating cause, and perhaps stUl another, and so on without limitation. And yet we know that there must have been a period when everything was void, or, in other words, when there was nothing. In the awful grandeur of that loneliness, desolation, and chaos, God we know, however, existed and called the universe into being. All that we, in our present finite condition, can ever comprehend of that stupendous birth is contained in the opening of the first chapter of Genesis. That is the story of the creation as told by God Himself to His chosen people, the Hebrews, they alone being selected from the nations then existing upon the earth to receive the wonderful revelation. Every people, no matter how degraded and sunken in barbarism, has some perception, some explanation of, and a more or less well-grounded belief in, a First Cause. Far back among the mists of antiquity, at theremotest beginnings of the shadowy centuries, sits enthron...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described; Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies. To get started finding 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described; Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 40

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: General Books

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1443256374

Description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Introduction. There are many expressions which, though simple in themselves, must forever remain beyond the grasp of human comprehension. Eternity, that which has neither end nor beginning, baffles the most profound human thought. It is impossible to think of a point beyond which there is absolutely nothing, or to imagine the passing of a million years without bringing us one day or one minute nearer to their close. Suppose that one could fix upon the terminal point, we would still fancy something beyond that, and then some period still more remote would present itself, and so on textit{ad infinitum. The same insurmountable difficulty confronts us when we seek to imagine a First Cause. God was the beginning, and yet it seems to our finite minds, that somethingmust have brought Him into existence, and we conclude that back again of that creating Power must have been another originating cause, and perhaps stUl another, and so on without limitation. And yet we know that there must have been a period when everything was void, or, in other words, when there was nothing. In the awful grandeur of that loneliness, desolation, and chaos, God we know, however, existed and called the universe into being. All that we, in our present finite condition, can ever comprehend of that stupendous birth is contained in the opening of the first chapter of Genesis. That is the story of the creation as told by God Himself to His chosen people, the Hebrews, they alone being selected from the nations then existing upon the earth to receive the wonderful revelation. Every people, no matter how degraded and sunken in barbarism, has some perception, some explanation of, and a more or less well-grounded belief in, a First Cause. Far back among the mists of antiquity, at theremotest beginnings of the shadowy centuries, sits enthron...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described; Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies. To get started finding 1000 Mythological Characters Briefly Described; Adapted to Private Schools, High Schools and Academies, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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