That she has so far acquiesced in the larger interpretation of Genesiacal cosmogony, that now the literal six-day theory would be very unsafe, forbids us to judge any present interpretation of other parts by the number, noise, or notoriety of its adherents.

The least original of the group, John Gilbert Cooper, versified in The Power of Harmony Shaftesbury's cosmogony.

Science began with the adventures of free-thinking speculators, who revolted against religious cosmogonies and superstitions.

Well, I would give up all the Teleologies and cosmogonies that I ever dreamt or read, just to believe what he believesHeigho and well-a-day!Paul! hist?

Absurd enough: butas every man who is acquainted with old mythical cosmogonies must knowno more absurd than twenty similar guesses on record.

If he talked learnedly, discussed old cosmogonies, worked out subtle theories of divinity, and chopped logic; if he spiced up big homilies with Plato and Virgil, or wandered into the domain of Hebrew roots and Greek iambics, his congregation would put him down as insane, and would be driven crazy themselves.

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All the old mythic cosmogonies are strangely suggestive and full of mystic import,that of Northern Odinism more than any other.

How curious, to trace in the grotesque mythic cosmogonies of India, Greece, and Scandinavia, modern geology, botany, chemistry, etc.,the vast and brutal giants of the Eddas and other old mythic scriptures being recognized as impersonations of the forces of Nature!

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.

In truth, the old mythic cosmogonies of the ancient East, South, and North are not a whit too grotesque in their descriptions of the embryo earth, when it lay weltering in a sort of uterine film, assuming form and regular lineaments.

Mythology delegated the government of the world to inferior deities, the subjects of an omnipotent Fate or Necessity; while, to show how extremes meet, mere science delegates it to chemical and physiological agencies, and ends, like the mythic cosmogonies, in some irrepressible spontaneous impulse of matter to develope itself in the ever-changing forms of the visible universe.

"You would like, then, the old Cosmogonies, the Eddas and the Vedas," said Elsley, getting interested, as most people did after five minutes' talk with the cynical doctor.

Mrs. Marvell's classification of the world into the visited and the unvisited was as obsolete as a mediaeval cosmogony.

Other cosmogonies, though bearing unmistakable evidence of their descent from the Mosaic, have had successive deposits, in successive series, of mythological strata.

It is only in the last three or four thousand years, and through weak and tentative methods of expression, through clumsy cosmogonies and theologies, and with incalculable confusion and discoloration, that the human mind has felt its way towards its undying being in the race.

Its use dates from the time when the cosmogony was thought to be young and life to be of very recent appearance.

Initiation precedes the communication of knowledge in Masonry, as darkness preceded light in the old cosmogonies.

"Genesis and the cosmogonies," says Portal, "mention the antagonism of light and darkness.

Hence this symbol is introduced into the cosmogony of nearly all nations; and there are few persons, even among those who have not made mythology their study, to whom the Mundane Egg is not perfectly familiar.

Such was the origin of this famous dogma, recognized by all the heathens, and incorporated with all the sacred fables, cosmogonies, and mysteries of antiquity.

In the shortest (but probably not the earliest) form of the cosmogony, the beginning of all things is found in the watery abyss.

The list of deities (as in the Greek cosmogony) seems to represent several dynasties, a conception which may embody the belief in the gradual organization of the world.

Other agreements between the two cosmogonies will be pointed out below.

The most convinced rationalist is in its presence suddenly stricken with a strange and ancient vision, sees the immense sceptical cosmogonies of this age as dreams going the way of a thousand forgotten heresies, and believes for a moment that the dark sayings handed down through eighteen centuries may, indeed, contain in themselves the revolutions of which we have only begun to dream.