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Page 152
We may never have seen a watch made — but in the watch before our eyes , we see the manifest adaptation of means to an end ; and this we have frequently before witnessed , as the posterior term of a sequence , in connexion with the ...
We may never have seen a watch made — but in the watch before our eyes , we see the manifest adaptation of means to an end ; and this we have frequently before witnessed , as the posterior term of a sequence , in connexion with the ...
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The chief then , or at least the usual subjectmatter of the argument , is the obvious adaptation wherewith creation teems , throughout all its borders , of means to a beneficial end . And it is manifest that the argument grows in ...
The chief then , or at least the usual subjectmatter of the argument , is the obvious adaptation wherewith creation teems , throughout all its borders , of means to a beneficial end . And it is manifest that the argument grows in ...
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... a most complete , a most varied collocation — and that , by means which nature , that great goddess of the infidel philosophy , as far as the eye of philosophy ever has explored , does not hold in any of her magazines .
... a most complete , a most varied collocation — and that , by means which nature , that great goddess of the infidel philosophy , as far as the eye of philosophy ever has explored , does not hold in any of her magazines .
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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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