Man's Limited Knowledge of Nature
T. Carlyle. Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Systems of nature! To the wisest man, wide as is his vision, nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion; and all experience thereof limits itself to some few computed centuries and square miles, The course of nature's phases, on this our little fraction of a planet, is partially known to us, but who knows what deeper courses these depend on! What infinitely larger cycle (of causes) our little epicycle revolves on! To the minnow every cranny and pebble, and quality and accident, of its little native creek may have become familiar; but does the minnow understand the ocean tides and periodic currents, the trade winds and monsoons, and moon's eclipses; by all which the condition of its little creek is regulated? (T. Carlyle.) Parallel Verses KJV: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. WEB: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.