The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 146
... intelligent adaptation , putting forth his ability and skill on the production of a me- chanism for the measurement of time . But though we should lop off , as it were , the measurement of time or this specific end from each of these ...
... intelligent adaptation , putting forth his ability and skill on the production of a me- chanism for the measurement of time . But though we should lop off , as it were , the measurement of time or this specific end from each of these ...
Page 148
... intelligent artist in the one case as in the other , although we had only seen the making of a watch , and never seen the making of an harmonicon . The truth is that it is not the particular end either of the one machine or the other ...
... intelligent artist in the one case as in the other , although we had only seen the making of a watch , and never seen the making of an harmonicon . The truth is that it is not the particular end either of the one machine or the other ...
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Thomas Chalmers. That the parent cause of intelligent beings shall be itself intelligent is an aphorism , which , if not de- monstrable in the forms of logic , carries in the very announcement of it a challenging power over the ...
Thomas Chalmers. That the parent cause of intelligent beings shall be itself intelligent is an aphorism , which , if not de- monstrable in the forms of logic , carries in the very announcement of it a challenging power over the ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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