 | Charles Darwin - 1887 - 572 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all...Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical. The lightning kills a man, whether a good one or bad one, owing to the... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 416 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all...Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical. The lightning kills a man, whether a good one or bad one, owing to the... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1928 - 838 pages
...intellect ; and the less one thinks of them, the better." And to Asa Gray he wrote at about the same time : "Let each man hope and believe what he can. Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical." But through all the shifting mists of theology there was a star that... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - American literature - 1888 - 338 pages
...course. . . I am not responsible if their meeting point should still be far off." To Asa Gray he writes: "I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. Л dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can. Certainly... | |
 | Science - 1888 - 898 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me.J Elsewhere he says of this suggestion, " I am aware it is not logical with reference to an omniscient... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - God - 1890 - 282 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me." And again, on June 5, 1861 : " I have been led to think more on this subject of late, and grieve to... | |
 | Theology - 1892 - 592 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me."2 In the end Darwin came to distinctly recognize the teleological nature of evolution. The old... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Science - 1896 - 920 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all...Certainly I agree with you that my views are not at all necessarily atheistical. The lightning kills a man, whether a good one or bad one, owing to the... | |
 | Rev. Bernard Boedder - God - 1896 - 516 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all...Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can." (Life and Letters, Vol. II. p. 312.) ing, however, that the first Designer of the world is self-existent... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman - God - 1902 - 286 pages
...as resulting from designed laws, with the details, whether good or bad, left to the working out of what we may call chance. Not that this notion at all satisfies me." And again, on June 5, 1861 : " I have been led to think more on this subject of late, and grieve to... | |
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I feel most deeply that the whole subject is too profound for the human intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton. Let each man hope and believe what he can. 
