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Page 146
It is enough to substantiate the inference that the arrangement should be obviously conducive to some end — to any end . From what the end particularly is , we learn what the particular object was which the artist had in view_but for ...
It is enough to substantiate the inference that the arrangement should be obviously conducive to some end — to any end . From what the end particularly is , we learn what the particular object was which the artist had in view_but for ...
Page 148
The truth is that it is not the particular end either of the one machine or the other , which leads to the inference of an intelligent maker - but the inference rests nakedly and essentially on this , that there is adaptation of parts ...
The truth is that it is not the particular end either of the one machine or the other , which leads to the inference of an intelligent maker - but the inference rests nakedly and essentially on this , that there is adaptation of parts ...
Page 331
Upon this question , the mind does not stop short at mere abstraction ; but , passing at once from the abstract to the concrete , from the law of the heart it makes the rapid inference of a lawgiver . It is the very rapidity of this ...
Upon this question , the mind does not stop short at mere abstraction ; but , passing at once from the abstract to the concrete , from the law of the heart it makes the rapid inference of a lawgiver . It is the very rapidity of this ...
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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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