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It is very likely that had we never been in converse either by touch or sight with external substances , we might never have attained our present notions of position or direction or quantity ; and so the principles of our mathematical ...
It is very likely that had we never been in converse either by touch or sight with external substances , we might never have attained our present notions of position or direction or quantity ; and so the principles of our mathematical ...
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When we look to the latter machine we feel sensible that we never before witnessed the putting forth of intelligence in the adaptation of parts for the end . there is novelty , because we never before saw a machine made for the ...
When we look to the latter machine we feel sensible that we never before witnessed the putting forth of intelligence in the adaptation of parts for the end . there is novelty , because we never before saw a machine made for the ...
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1 so that though we should never have seen a watch made , and never seen a watch - maker employed in the formation of one , though we should never have had this particular experience , yet we have had experience enough to infer from the ...
1 so that though we should never have seen a watch made , and never seen a watch - maker employed in the formation of one , though we should never have had this particular experience , yet we have had experience enough to infer from the ...
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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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