“If, occasionally, historical evidence does not square with formulated laws, it should be remembered that a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with laws.” IfsShouldDoeFactsLawEvidenceHistoricalExperimentsRememberedSquaresConformDeductionsHistorical Facts Book:Worlds in Collision Source: Worlds in Collision
“Newton supposed that all matter attracted other matter inversely according to the square of the distance; and the hypothesis was found to account for the whole movements of the heavenly bodies; which all became verifications of what Newton supposed to be the law of the solar system. Adopt the hypothesis that Jesus was what He is represented, and the whole of the books and the history becomes a verification.” BookMatterWholeBodyLawFoundJesusMovementAccountsDistanceSupposed To BeHeavenlySquaresHypothesisNewtonSolar SystemVerificationHeavenly Bodies Book:Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics Source: Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics
“we cannot break a law of eternal justice, however ignorantly, but throughout the entire universe will there be a jar of discord that will so trouble the divine harmonies that in the rebound we shall find each man his own hell! The sooner we arrive at this knowledge, the sooner we take the certainty to our souls, the sooner do our lives begin to assume the square allotted to us.” MenSoulLawUniverseJusticeBreakHellOur LivesTroubleDivineEternalHarmonyAssumingCertaintySquaresJarsDiscordRebound Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman