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 2University Press, 1836 - 542 pages |
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Page 32
... necessary and eternal existence of matter . 2. If matter be unproduced , then necessary exist- ence must belong to it as well as to God ; and if ne- cessary existence belongs to matter , infinite power must belong to it too ; for ...
... necessary and eternal existence of matter . 2. If matter be unproduced , then necessary exist- ence must belong to it as well as to God ; and if ne- cessary existence belongs to matter , infinite power must belong to it too ; for ...
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... necessary existence be of the nature of matter , all other perfections must belong to it too : and so there can be no superiority and inferiority between God and matter , because on both sides there will be necessary existence ...
... necessary existence be of the nature of matter , all other perfections must belong to it too : and so there can be no superiority and inferiority between God and matter , because on both sides there will be necessary existence ...
Page 44
... necessary descent rent . Mag . to his atoms by virtue of their gravity ; and if a philo- nitud . Solis sopher may beg such things as these are , so repugnant sublimis , to the phenomena of nature , without assigning any other reason for ...
... necessary descent rent . Mag . to his atoms by virtue of their gravity ; and if a philo- nitud . Solis sopher may beg such things as these are , so repugnant sublimis , to the phenomena of nature , without assigning any other reason for ...
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... necessary a principle , that from thence they undertake to resolve many phenomena of the universe . Let us now see how consistent these things are with the inseparable property of motion be- longing to atoms : for if there be particles ...
... necessary a principle , that from thence they undertake to resolve many phenomena of the universe . Let us now see how consistent these things are with the inseparable property of motion be- longing to atoms : for if there be particles ...
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... necessary to the contexture and union of bodies , how came those least imaginable particles ever to unite without such hooks and angles ? And so the question will return in infinitum . If then the solidity and in- divisibility of these ...
... necessary to the contexture and union of bodies , how came those least imaginable particles ever to unite without such hooks and angles ? And so the question will return in infinitum . If then the solidity and in- divisibility of these ...
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