Quotes by David Brewster

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“Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.”

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“Thus identified with astronomy, in proclaiming truths supposed to be hostile to Scripture, Geology has been denounced as the enemy of religion. The twin sisters of terrestrial and celestial physics...”
— David Brewster, More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
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“Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.”
— David Brewster, More Worlds Than One: The Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian
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“If it has been revealed to man that the Almighty made him out of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, it is in vain to tell a Christian that man was originally ...”
— David Brewster
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“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man; and it is an easier faith that plants and animals may dwindle down into an elemental atom, than that thi...”
— David Brewster
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