A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

by Augustus De Morgan

And also my wedded Nile;

And on my coast shall cities rise,

Each one distant but a mile.

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"My friends the Russians on the north

With Persees and Arabs round,

Do show the limits of my land,

Here! Here! then I mark the ground."

ON THEOLOGICAL PARADOXERS.

Among the paradoxers are some of the theologians who in their own organs of the press venture to criticise science. These may hold their ground when they confine themselves to the geology of long past periods and to general cosmogony: for it is the tug of Greek against Greek; and both sides deal much in what is grand when called hypothesis, petty when called supposition. And very often they are not conspicuous when they venture upon things within knowledge;