 | Henry Fergus - Creation - 1833 - 294 pages
...is not in the child, but in him who makes the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure." If we do not see other animals displaying the geometry of the bee, we observe them, in a... | |
 | Books - 1833 - 626 pages
...is not in the child, but in him who makes the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure." If we do not see other animals displaying the geometry of the bee, we observe them, in a... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1837 - 510 pages
...art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its comb so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure." §. 102. Instincts susceptible of slight modifications. We usually speak of the instincts... | |
 | Henry Fergus - Natural theology - 1838 - 332 pages
...is not in the child, but in him who makes the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure." If we do not see other animals displaying the geometry of the bee, we observe them, in a... | |
 | Henry Fergus - Natural theology - 1838 - 332 pages
...is not in the child, but in him who makes the organ. In like manner, when a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure." If we do not see other animals displaying the geometry of the bee, we observe them, in a... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...manner, when a bee makes its combs so geometrically, the geomotry is not in the bee, but in that ( i real Geometrician who made the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measureOn the whole, it is evider.l, that the structure of a honey-comb is an effect of instinct which... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Education - 1840 - 328 pages
...is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner, when the bee makes its comb so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, but...the bee, and made all things, in number, weight, and measure." — Reid. by disappointment, nor misled by the false philosophy that deals in nothing but... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Education - 1840 - 300 pages
...organ. In like manner, when the bee makes its comb so geometrically, the geometry is not in the bee, bat in that great Geometrician, who made the bee, and made all things, in number, weight, and measure." — Reid. by disappointment, nor misled by the false philosophy that deals in nothing but... | |
 | William Jardine - Entomology - 1840 - 430 pages
...knowledge of geometry." After all, as Dr. Reid remarks, the geometry is not in the bee, but in the Geometrician who made the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure. The cells in a honey-comb are of different dimensions, corresponding to the different classes... | |
 | Rev. William Dunbar, James Duncan - Bees - 1840 - 436 pages
...knowledge of geometry." After all, as Dr. Reid remarks, the geometry is not in the bee, but in the Geometrician who mad,e the bee, and made all things in number, weight, and measure. The cells in a honey-comb are of different dimensions, corresponding to the different classes... | |
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They work most geometrically, without any knowledge of geometry ; somewhat like a child, who, by turning the handle of an organ, makes good music, without any knowledge of music. The art is not in the child, but in him who made the organ. In like manner,... 
