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By the former method Theology is capable of being presented more in the form or aspect of a regular science , with the orderly descent and derivation of its propositions from the highest ...
By the former method Theology is capable of being presented more in the form or aspect of a regular science , with the orderly descent and derivation of its propositions from the highest ...
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moral nature ; and the former ought no more to be confounded with the latter , than the truths of geometry with the faculties of the reasoning mind which comprehends them . The virtuousness of justice was a stable doctrine in ethical ...
moral nature ; and the former ought no more to be confounded with the latter , than the truths of geometry with the faculties of the reasoning mind which comprehends them . The virtuousness of justice was a stable doctrine in ethical ...
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Yet it is no less true , that , did the former affections bear supreme rule in the heart , they would brighten and tranquillize the whole of human existence — whereas , had the latter the entire and practical ascendancy , they would ...
Yet it is no less true , that , did the former affections bear supreme rule in the heart , they would brighten and tranquillize the whole of human existence — whereas , had the latter the entire and practical ascendancy , they would ...
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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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