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Page 139
It does not at all appear that the experience of nature's constancy is first waited for ere it is anticipated by the mind . And even although it had to be waited for ; and the observation had been made for years of nature's constancyit ...
It does not at all appear that the experience of nature's constancy is first waited for ere it is anticipated by the mind . And even although it had to be waited for ; and the observation had been made for years of nature's constancyit ...
Page 168
There appears for example to be nothing substantial or effective in that reasoning which is founded on the comparison between mind in the abstract and matter in the abstract — or which , on the bare existence of matter apart from its ...
There appears for example to be nothing substantial or effective in that reasoning which is founded on the comparison between mind in the abstract and matter in the abstract — or which , on the bare existence of matter apart from its ...
Page 266
... there are so many random productions , they affirm , which in an infinity of combinations are not more than might have been expected , but a plausible and confident appeal to which will make the worse appear the better argument . 8.
... there are so many random productions , they affirm , which in an infinity of combinations are not more than might have been expected , but a plausible and confident appeal to which will make the worse appear the better argument . 8.
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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| Title | The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1 The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Thomas Chalmers |
| Author | Thomas Chalmers |
| Publisher | W. Collins, 1836 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2019 |
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