The Book of NatureJ. & J. Harper, 1831 - 467 páginas |
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... intelligence , there is so pure and perfect an absurdity in en- deavouring to account for its existence upon every other theory which has hitherto been invented , that right reason should induce us to embrace the former opinion with the ...
... intelligence , there is so pure and perfect an absurdity in en- deavouring to account for its existence upon every other theory which has hitherto been invented , that right reason should induce us to embrace the former opinion with the ...
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... intelligence , however , is still more demonstrable throughout nature than the existence of matter itself ; and hence such philosophers were driven to the acknowledgment of an intelli- gent principle distinct from a material substance ...
... intelligence , however , is still more demonstrable throughout nature than the existence of matter itself ; and hence such philosophers were driven to the acknowledgment of an intelli- gent principle distinct from a material substance ...
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... intelligence , matter , form , and privation ; which last term is little more than a mere synonyme for space or vacuum ; and thus far the theory of Aris- totle chiefly differs from that of Plato , by interweaving into it his fourth prin ...
... intelligence , matter , form , and privation ; which last term is little more than a mere synonyme for space or vacuum ; and thus far the theory of Aris- totle chiefly differs from that of Plato , by interweaving into it his fourth prin ...
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... intelligence , by giving to numbers , ideas , or a mere abstract notion , real form and existence . The most powerful advocate of the Pla- tonic theory , in modern times , was the very excellent Bishop Berkeley ; who , in the true ...
... intelligence , by giving to numbers , ideas , or a mere abstract notion , real form and existence . The most powerful advocate of the Pla- tonic theory , in modern times , was the very excellent Bishop Berkeley ; who , in the true ...
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... intelligence , matter created out of nothing , innu- merable systems of worlds , and innumerable orders of beings ; where is the mind strong enough to grapple with such ideas as these ? They at once en- tice and overwhelm us . Reason ...
... intelligence , matter created out of nothing , innu- merable systems of worlds , and innumerable orders of beings ; where is the mind strong enough to grapple with such ideas as these ? They at once en- tice and overwhelm us . Reason ...
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