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Nature And History: Frequently revised and brought up to date, they remained standard texts in English and American schools for nearly a century, as did his 8-volume History of Earth and Animated Nature and history (1774), a survey of natural history drawn from many sources, but enlivened and enriched by his own observations.
History.—According to the ancients, "Nature and history abhors a vacuum." One demonstration of this abhorrence was that water could be raised by a water suction Pump from a well. However, water could not be raised more than about 33 feet by this method. Galileo thought it strange that this abhorrence of Nature and history stopped at 33 feet. However, it was Galileo's pupil, Evangelista Torricelli, who demonstrated, in 1643, that Nature and history also ceased to abhor a vacuum above a column of mercury, except that in this case the height was only approximately 30 inches.
God has revealed Himself and His will in ways that are readily understandable in terms of human reason—in Nature and history, in human history, in man's own Nature and history. But there are other aspects of God that man can know only through t ercise of faith—a willingness on his i accept what are sometimes called the of revelation, as opposed to the truths of These may be revealed through some we acts that awe and impress, oracular woi some other manifestation; such a revi which must be accepted on faith, is a speech of God to man, although the rr may be delivered through a prophet or agent. |
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