The Works of Thomas Chalmers, Volume 1W. Collins, 1836 - Presbyterian Church |
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Page 191
... single word , what that is in matter apart from laws , which we would single out as affording the chief argument for a God . It is not enough to say that , in contradistinction to the properties of matter , we would appeal to the collo ...
... single word , what that is in matter apart from laws , which we would single out as affording the chief argument for a God . It is not enough to say that , in contradistinction to the properties of matter , we would appeal to the collo ...
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... single object within the compass of visible nature . It is instinct throughout with the evidence of a builder's hand ; and thus the appropriate men of science who can expound those dispositions of matter which constitute the anatomy of ...
... single object within the compass of visible nature . It is instinct throughout with the evidence of a builder's hand ; and thus the appropriate men of science who can expound those dispositions of matter which constitute the anatomy of ...
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... between the two suppositions of intelligence or chance , will be found , even on many a single organ of the human framework , to preponderate vastly more than a million - fold on the side of the IN THE MENTAL CONSTITUTION . 283.
... between the two suppositions of intelligence or chance , will be found , even on many a single organ of the human framework , to preponderate vastly more than a million - fold on the side of the IN THE MENTAL CONSTITUTION . 283.
Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
MR HUMES OBJECTION TO THE A POSTERIORI | 121 |
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