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On the imagination that one of the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter had the mysterious knowledge of all my movements , and a mysterious power of guidance and protection over me ; that he eyed me with constant benevolence , and ever ...
On the imagination that one of the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter had the mysterious knowledge of all my movements , and a mysterious power of guidance and protection over me ; that he eyed me with constant benevolence , and ever ...
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But so also may the imagination of a possible God -in which case , the very idea of a God , even in its most hypothetical form , might lay a responsibility , even upon atheists . 10. Here then is one palpable use for the distinction ...
But so also may the imagination of a possible God -in which case , the very idea of a God , even in its most hypothetical form , might lay a responsibility , even upon atheists . 10. Here then is one palpable use for the distinction ...
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But why recur to the imagination of its being a consequent at all ? Why not take for granted the eternity of its being , instead of supposing it the product of another , and then taking for granted the eternity of his being ?
But why recur to the imagination of its being a consequent at all ? Why not take for granted the eternity of its being , instead of supposing it the product of another , and then taking for granted the eternity of his being ?
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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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