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Page 107
... Eternity and immensity , it is allowed , are not substances they are only attributes , and , incapable as they are of existing by themselves , they necessarily suppose a substantive Being in which they are inherent . " For modes and ...
... Eternity and immensity , it is allowed , are not substances they are only attributes , and , incapable as they are of existing by themselves , they necessarily suppose a substantive Being in which they are inherent . " For modes and ...
Page 162
... eternity of its being , instead of sup- posing it the product of another , and then taking for granted the eternity of his being ? And , after all , it may be thought , that the eternity of our world is but one gratuitous imagination ...
... eternity of its being , instead of sup- posing it the product of another , and then taking for granted the eternity of his being ? And , after all , it may be thought , that the eternity of our world is but one gratuitous imagination ...
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... eternity of matter and the eternity of mind , there has been advanced , on the Theistical side of the controversy , a deal of specu- lation and argument with which our understandings do not at all coalesce . We have already stated the ...
... eternity of matter and the eternity of mind , there has been advanced , on the Theistical side of the controversy , a deal of specu- lation and argument with which our understandings do not at all coalesce . We have already stated the ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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