The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 |
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Page 164
... material world . By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself , we really assert it to be God ; and the sooner we arrive at that divine Being so much the better . When you go one step beyond the mundane system ...
... material world . By supposing it to contain the principle of its order within itself , we really assert it to be God ; and the sooner we arrive at that divine Being so much the better . When you go one step beyond the mundane system ...
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... material economy - we have had no such proof of a commencement to the mental economy which may have preceded it . There is room for the question , how came the material system of things into its present order ? -because we have reason ...
... material economy - we have had no such proof of a commencement to the mental economy which may have preceded it . There is room for the question , how came the material system of things into its present order ? -because we have reason ...
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... material , we know , not to have been from everlasting . The other , the mental , which by all experience and analogy must have preceded the material , bears no symptom which we can discover , of its ever having required any remoter ...
... material , we know , not to have been from everlasting . The other , the mental , which by all experience and analogy must have preceded the material , bears no symptom which we can discover , of its ever having required any remoter ...
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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