 | 1802 - 764 pages
...This subject is divided into two propositions, which, after ample illustration, are repeated. " First, that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is bénéficiai : secondly, that the Deity has added pleasure to animal sensations beyond what was necessary... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...the character of utility can be called in questia.n. The case of vmomctis animxTs is of much inferior consequence to the case of prey, and, in some degree, is also included under it.' Though Dr. P. does not attempt an universal solution of the Origin of Evil, his view» of this subject... | |
 | 1803 - 818 pages
...considerable length. The proof of it is made to rest upon the two following propositions : the first is, that in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is. perceived, the design is bencfiL-iat ; the second, thai tiie deity has super-added pleasure to animal sensations, beyond... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...proposition. The reader will now bear in mind what our t-ni propositions were. They were, firstly, that in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance...perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial : secondly ; that thi Deity has added pleasure to animal sepsations beyond what was necessary for any... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 574 pages
...the character of utility can be called in question. The case of venomous animals is of much inferior consequence to the case of prey, and, in some degree,...and that which we have hitherto been defending, was, 2 i " that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the... | |
 | William Paley - 1813 - 572 pages
...the character of utility can be called in question. The case of venomous animals is of much inferior consequence to the case of prey, and, in some degree,...which we have hitherto been defending, was, " that, 2 i in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance... | |
 | J. W. Baker - 1817 - 262 pages
...restrictions, and by certain common rules. 172. The goodness of the Deity is evident, if we consider that in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is perceived, the design is beneficial. * Illustration (I.) No productions of nature display contrivance so manifestly as the... | |
 | William Paley - 1819 - 302 pages
...instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial.'' First, "in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is benef.eial."' When we appeal to the purrs and faculties of animals, and to the limbs and senses of... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...the character of utility can be called in question. The case of venomous animals is of much inferior consequence to the case of prey, and, in some degree,...which we are in possession. Our FIRST PROPOSITION, and thatwhich we have hitherto been defending, was, "that, in avast plurality of instances, in which contrivance... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...the purpose, so far as it was necessary, might have been effected by the operation of pam." First, " in a vast plurality of instances in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is- benejicial." No productions of nature display contrivance so manifestly as the parts of animals ; and... | |
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Our first proposition, and that which we have hitherto been defending, was, ' that, in a vast plurality of instances, in which contrivance is perceived, the design of the contrivance is beneficial.' Our second proposition is, ' that the Deity has added... 
