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Again— “ If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world , this ideal world must rest upon some other ; and so on without end . It were better therefore never to look beyond the present material world . By supposing it to contain ...
Again— “ If the material world rests upon a similar ideal world , this ideal world must rest upon some other ; and so on without end . It were better therefore never to look beyond the present material world . By supposing it to contain ...
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The Atheist does not perceive why a material economy as exemplified in the world might not fall into order of itself , as well as a mental economy as exemplified in God . The precise difference between the two is , that we have had ...
The Atheist does not perceive why a material economy as exemplified in the world might not fall into order of itself , as well as a mental economy as exemplified in God . The precise difference between the two is , that we have had ...
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So that when the question is put — Why may not the material economy fall into order of itself , as well as the mental which we affirm to have caused , it ? _our reply is , that so far from this mental economy falling into order of ...
So that when the question is put — Why may not the material economy fall into order of itself , as well as the mental which we affirm to have caused , it ? _our reply is , that so far from this mental economy falling into order of ...
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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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