 | Theology - 1832 - 698 pages
...•Hume. causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."* His belief he has left us in a well written confession of his faith, embracing the usual articles of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and to Deity. Nay, even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion, that... | |
 | Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no furth.gr ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." 2. I notice a second view which appears to me to be equally erroneous. It is that where there is a... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." Notwithstanding Lord Bacon's objection to final causes as a subject of philosophical inquiry, it must... | |
 | Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...at second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity." Notwithstanding Lord Bacon's objection to final causes as a subject of philosophical inquiry, it must... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to providence and deity." 3 M. Life, p. xlii. , To my Lord of Essex. My singular good Lord, — Your lordship's so honourable... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1837 - 376 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.' " " This certainly falls in," said Campbell, " with your general arrangement at the beginning of time,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together,...credible that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifxh essence, i Such was the state of public opinion, that a few dared to commit a most atrocious... | |
 | London city mission - Christian socialism - 1840 - 620 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther: but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. The Scripture saith, ' The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God:' it is not said, ' The fool... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy of mind - 1843 - 632 pages
...upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together,...fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, thin that an army of infinite small portions, or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and... | |
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It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ; for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but... 
