 | Arthur Aikin - 1803 - 996 pages
...in the business, is Atheism : " for every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of detign, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of...that in a degree which exceeds all computation.'" p. 19. This argument is first applied to the eye, with great ingenuity and success. All the various... | |
 | 1803 - 572 pages
...advances to the application of his hypothesis ; affirming, as the proposition to be demonstrated, that. ' Every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of natnie; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater and more, and that in a degree... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 498 pages
...maintained without absurdity ? Yet this is atheism. CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT. J. HIS is atheism : for every indication of contrivance,...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art in the complexity, subtlety,... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 574 pages
...THE ARGUMENT. THIS is atheism : for every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, c •which existed in the watch, exists in the works...greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds ail computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complex---... | |
 | William Paley - 1813 - 572 pages
...TH-B ARGUMENT. THIS is atheism: for every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, c which existed in the watch, exists in the works of...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtility,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...Argument, This is atheism : for every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, »hicb existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtility,... | |
 | William Paley - 1819 - 302 pages
...atheism : for every indication of contrivance,every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch r exists in the works of nature ; with the difference,...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art.in the complexity. subtlety,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...supreme piece of art be now added to the rest ? Can this be maintained without absurdity ? Yet this is atheism : for every indication of contrivance,...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtilty,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...absurdity ? Yet this is atheism. CHAP. III. Application oj the argument, THIS is atheism : forevery indication of contrivance, every manifestation of...and that in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean, that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtil... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 324 pages
...maintained without absurdity? Yet this is atheism. e 2 I CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT. THIS is atheism : for every indication of contrivance,...that . in a degree which exceeds all computation. I mean that the contrivances of nature surpass the contrivances of art, in the complexity, subtlety,... | |
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THIS is atheism : for every indication of contrivance, every manifestation of design, which existed in the watch, exists in the works of nature ; with the difference, on the side of nature, of being greater and more, and that in a degree which exceeds... 
