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... devised and purposed the end — and so , on the principle which gives truth to all our reasoning from experience , we infer the agency of such a mind in the formation of a watch , though it be a formation that we never witnessed .
... devised and purposed the end — and so , on the principle which gives truth to all our reasoning from experience , we infer the agency of such a mind in the formation of a watch , though it be a formation that we never witnessed .
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In none of the old formations hath he ascertained the vestige of the human skeleton - marking the recent origin of our own species . It is only in the latest of these formations that he discovered traces indeed of any of our existing ...
In none of the old formations hath he ascertained the vestige of the human skeleton - marking the recent origin of our own species . It is only in the latest of these formations that he discovered traces indeed of any of our existing ...
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Within the limits of a species there might be manifold varieties — but these limits can never be transgressed to the formation of another distinct and enduring species in the animal kingdom . Let us combine these two doctrines .
Within the limits of a species there might be manifold varieties — but these limits can never be transgressed to the formation of another distinct and enduring species in the animal kingdom . Let us combine these two doctrines .
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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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