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Page 117
The argument for the being of a God drawn from the former consideration , tinged as it is throughout with the a priori spirit we hold to be altogether mystical and meaningless — insomuch that for the doctrine of an original creation of ...
The argument for the being of a God drawn from the former consideration , tinged as it is throughout with the a priori spirit we hold to be altogether mystical and meaningless — insomuch that for the doctrine of an original creation of ...
Page 119
It is like seeking for the indications of an artist's hand in the rude and raw material upon which he operates — when we might behold them at once in the finished work of those exquisite fabrications which hold forth irresistibly the ...
It is like seeking for the indications of an artist's hand in the rude and raw material upon which he operates — when we might behold them at once in the finished work of those exquisite fabrications which hold forth irresistibly the ...
Page 133
God does not by this workmanship hold himself forth to observers in visible personality as our fellow - creatures do . He has left for our inspection a thousand specimens of skilful and beauteous mechanism ; but he has left us to view ...
God does not by this workmanship hold himself forth to observers in visible personality as our fellow - creatures do . He has left for our inspection a thousand specimens of skilful and beauteous mechanism ; but he has left us to view ...
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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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