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... EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD , 96 V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER , 131 VI . OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED , 169 VII . MORAL ARGUMENT - TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY , · VIII . CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS TO THE DIVINE ...
... EFFECT WHOSE CAUSE IS GOD , 96 V. THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER , 131 VI . OBJECTIONS TO THE ARGUMENT FROM ORDER EXAMINED , 169 VII . MORAL ARGUMENT - TESTIMONY OF CONSCIENCE AND HISTORY , · VIII . CONSIDERATION OF OBJECTIONS TO THE DIVINE ...
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... effects as any good which can be ascribed to it ; and there can be no warrant for speaking of benefits as its proper effects , or uses and mischiefs as merely occasioned by it , or as its abuses . If in itself false , it must be ...
... effects as any good which can be ascribed to it ; and there can be no warrant for speaking of benefits as its proper effects , or uses and mischiefs as merely occasioned by it , or as its abuses . If in itself false , it must be ...
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... effect . But to think of God as a cause - to appre- hend the universe as an effect , we must have some immediate and direct experience of causa- tion . And such experience we have only in the consciousness of volition . When the soul ...
... effect . But to think of God as a cause - to appre- hend the universe as an effect , we must have some immediate and direct experience of causa- tion . And such experience we have only in the consciousness of volition . When the soul ...
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... effect which must have an adequate cause , they will question your right to refer to the order which is in the universe as a proof that it is an event or effect , because order implies another principle , and is the ground of another ...
... effect which must have an adequate cause , they will question your right to refer to the order which is in the universe as a proof that it is an event or effect , because order implies another principle , and is the ground of another ...
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... effect or not - you must study it as it is , and take everything into account which bears on the question . They reason as if they supposed that a cause and an intelligence must be two different things , and that a cause cannot be an ...
... effect or not - you must study it as it is , and take everything into account which bears on the question . They reason as if they supposed that a cause and an intelligence must be two different things , and that a cause cannot be an ...
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