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If we have seen but once in our life a watch made , and coming forth of the hands of a watch - maker ; we , in all time coming , can , on seeing the watch only , infer the watch - maker . But this full experience comprehensive of both ...
If we have seen but once in our life a watch made , and coming forth of the hands of a watch - maker ; we , in all time coming , can , on seeing the watch only , infer the watch - maker . But this full experience comprehensive of both ...
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from that of a watch . If , for example , instead of a mechanism which served to mark a succession of hours , there were presented a mechanism which served to evolve a succession of musical harmonies , we should just as confidently ...
from that of a watch . If , for example , instead of a mechanism which served to mark a succession of hours , there were presented a mechanism which served to evolve a succession of musical harmonies , we should just as confidently ...
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of a watch , though we had just as little experience in the making of watches as we have in the making of worlds . We may never have seen a watch made — but in the watch before our eyes , we see the manifest adaptation of means to an ...
of a watch , though we had just as little experience in the making of watches as we have in the making of worlds . We may never have seen a watch made — but in the watch before our eyes , we see the manifest adaptation of means to an ...
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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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