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Page 205
... in the pupil of the eye , and the retina to be placed at such a distance behind — as to make the pencils meet on that visual tablet , and there spread out a picture of nature for the information of the living occupier within ?
... in the pupil of the eye , and the retina to be placed at such a distance behind — as to make the pencils meet on that visual tablet , and there spread out a picture of nature for the information of the living occupier within ?
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And God created great whales , and every living creature that moveth , which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind , and every winged fowl after his kind : and God said that it was good .
And God created great whales , and every living creature that moveth , which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kind , and every winged fowl after his kind : and God said that it was good .
Page 270
Now it so happens of the goose that it can live upon land with its long neck and short legs — though the ... under a random or unintelligent economy of things , there is not an infinite multitude of such examples among living animals ?
Now it so happens of the goose that it can live upon land with its long neck and short legs — though the ... under a random or unintelligent economy of things , there is not an infinite multitude of such examples among living animals ?
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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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