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Page 112
And just because he sees not how — therefore matter must derive its existence from some other being who causes it to ... in immensity - because we cannot tell the specific cause of its various forms , and modifications , and movements ...
And just because he sees not how — therefore matter must derive its existence from some other being who causes it to ... in immensity - because we cannot tell the specific cause of its various forms , and modifications , and movements ...
Page 129
If experience and observation and analogy be indeed the only guides which we can reasonably follow in inferences of this nature — both the effect and cause must bear a similarity and resemblance to other effects and causes which we know ...
If experience and observation and analogy be indeed the only guides which we can reasonably follow in inferences of this nature — both the effect and cause must bear a similarity and resemblance to other effects and causes which we know ...
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a ments from an internal unknown cause may fall into the most exquisite arrangement , than to conceive that their ideas in the great universal mind from a like internal unknown cause fall into that arrangement . The equal possibility of ...
a ments from an internal unknown cause may fall into the most exquisite arrangement , than to conceive that their ideas in the great universal mind from a like internal unknown cause fall into that arrangement . The equal possibility of ...
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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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