Natural Theology, Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the DeityGould and Lincoln, 1855 - 420 pagina's |
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Pagina 13
... contrivance , ev- ery manifestation of design , which existed in the watch , ex- ists in the works of nature ; with the difference , on the side of nature , of being greater and more , and that in a degree which exceeds all computation ...
... contrivance , ev- ery manifestation of design , which existed in the watch , ex- ists in the works of nature ; with the difference , on the side of nature , of being greater and more , and that in a degree which exceeds all computation ...
Pagina 14
... contrivance a certain way ; and that then we come to something which is not mechanical , or which is in- scrutable . But this affects not the certainty of our inves- tigation , as far as we have gone . The difference between an animal ...
... contrivance a certain way ; and that then we come to something which is not mechanical , or which is in- scrutable . But this affects not the certainty of our inves- tigation , as far as we have gone . The difference between an animal ...
Pagina 15
... contrivance from the one , yet to acknowledge the proof of contrivance hav- ing been employed , as the plainest and clearest of all pro- positions , in the other ? The resemblance between the two cases is still more ac- curate , and ...
... contrivance from the one , yet to acknowledge the proof of contrivance hav- ing been employed , as the plainest and clearest of all pro- positions , in the other ? The resemblance between the two cases is still more ac- curate , and ...
Pagina 19
... contrivance than this is ? The most secret laws of optics must have been known to the author of a structure endowed with such a capacity of change . It is as though an optician , when he had a nearer object to view , should rectify his ...
... contrivance than this is ? The most secret laws of optics must have been known to the author of a structure endowed with such a capacity of change . It is as though an optician , when he had a nearer object to view , should rectify his ...
Pagina 20
... contrivance at all ? or , if it be a contrivance , that it is without a contriver ? But this , though much , is not the whole : by different species of animals the faculty we are describing is possess- ed , in degrees suited to the ...
... contrivance at all ? or , if it be a contrivance , that it is without a contriver ? But this , though much , is not the whole : by different species of animals the faculty we are describing is possess- ed , in degrees suited to the ...
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