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ward off an assault of infidelity- an expedient , which , unless the principle be very obvious in itself , gives an exceeding frailty to the argument , and causes it to be received with distrust . Per haps the tendency both of Reid and ...
ward off an assault of infidelity- an expedient , which , unless the principle be very obvious in itself , gives an exceeding frailty to the argument , and causes it to be received with distrust . Per haps the tendency both of Reid and ...
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Bishop Butler has often been spoken of as the first discoverer of this great principle in our nature ; though , perhaps , no man can properly be said to discover what all men are conscious of . But certain it is , that he is the first ...
Bishop Butler has often been spoken of as the first discoverer of this great principle in our nature ; though , perhaps , no man can properly be said to discover what all men are conscious of . But certain it is , that he is the first ...
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Even there , the universal principle of humanity would be acknowledged , that it were wrong to inflict a wanton and uncalled for agony on any of our fellows_but there is a local superstition which counteracts the universal principle ...
Even there , the universal principle of humanity would be acknowledged , that it were wrong to inflict a wanton and uncalled for agony on any of our fellows_but there is a local superstition which counteracts the universal principle ...
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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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