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congregated apparently at random in the receptacle which holds it , might exhibit a number of properties and manifest itself to be the subject of various laws , without announcing that either a creative power or an intelligent purpose ...
congregated apparently at random in the receptacle which holds it , might exhibit a number of properties and manifest itself to be the subject of various laws , without announcing that either a creative power or an intelligent purpose ...
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He did not establish the properties of matter — he only took advantage of these properties by a right disposition of the parts of matter . He did not institute the laws but he turns these laws to his purpose ; and this purpose is ...
He did not establish the properties of matter — he only took advantage of these properties by a right disposition of the parts of matter . He did not institute the laws but he turns these laws to his purpose ; and this purpose is ...
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The properties might all have been detected in the medley of its rude and unfashioned materials . But it is because of a shape and distribution that evolved the properties towards some ...
The properties might all have been detected in the medley of its rude and unfashioned materials . But it is because of a shape and distribution that evolved the properties towards some ...
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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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