Origines Sacrae Or a Rational Account of the Grounds of Natural and Revealed Religion: To which is Added Part of Another Book Upon the Same Subject, Left Unfinished by the Author : Together with a Letter to a Deist, Volume 2 |
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The world could not be produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from the nature and motion of Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the production and nature of animals . XVIII .
The world could not be produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from the nature and motion of Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the production and nature of animals . XVIII .
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The world could not be produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from the nature and motion of Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the proSTILLINGFLEET , VOL . II . B III .
The world could not be produced by a casual concourse of atoms , proved from the nature and motion of Epicurus's atoms , and the phænomena of the universe ; especially the proSTILLINGFLEET , VOL . II . B III .
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Of the Cartesian hypothesis , that it cannot salve the origin of the universe without a Deity giving motion to matter . BOOK THE foundations of religion being thus established in the being of God , and the immortality of the soul ...
Of the Cartesian hypothesis , that it cannot salve the origin of the universe without a Deity giving motion to matter . BOOK THE foundations of religion being thus established in the being of God , and the immortality of the soul ...
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Such as endeavour to explain the origin of the universe , and all appearances of nature , merely by the mechanical laws of the motion of matter . I begin with those who assert the eternity of the world as it is , among whom Aristotle ...
Such as endeavour to explain the origin of the universe , and all appearances of nature , merely by the mechanical laws of the motion of matter . I begin with those who assert the eternity of the world as it is , among whom Aristotle ...
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BOOK Spirit , or the vis plastica mundi ; so Chrysostom calls it évépyesa CWTIKỳ , and so Drusius and P. Fagius explain 9077 by motion or agitation . And herein we have likewise the consent of those forenamed excellent philosophers ...
BOOK Spirit , or the vis plastica mundi ; so Chrysostom calls it évépyesa CWTIKỳ , and so Drusius and P. Fagius explain 9077 by motion or agitation . And herein we have likewise the consent of those forenamed excellent philosophers ...
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