| William Paley - 1824 - 382 pages
...discretion. There may be particular intelligent beings, guiding these motions in each case : or they may tie the result of trains of mechanical dispositions, fixed beforehand by an intelligent appomtment, and kept in action by a power at the centre. But, in either case; there must be intelligence.... | |
| William Paley - 1826 - 320 pages
...they testify not the smallest sign of choice, or liberty, or discretion. There may be plastic natures, particular intelligent beings, guiding these motions...mechanical dispositions, fixed beforehand by an intelligent appoint- 1 ment, and kept in action by a power at the centre. But in either case there must be intelligence.... | |
| William Paley - 1854 - 442 pages
...utility of the whole: and it should seem that these particles could not move in any other way than aa they do; for they testify not the smallest sign of...fixed beforehand by an intelligent appointment, and Ite'pt in action by a power at the centre. But, in either case, there must be intelligence. And after... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 586 pages
...acute champion of Teleology, Paley, saw no difficulty in admitting that the " production of things " may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre, J that is to say, he proleptically... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 570 pages
...acute champion of Teleology, Paley, saw no difficulty in admitting that the " production of things" may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre, J that is to say, he proleptically... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1887 - 588 pages
...acute champion of Teleology, Paley, saw no difficulty in admitting that the " production of things " may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre, J that is to say, he proleptically... | |
| William Parker Cutler - 1888 - 1034 pages
...acute champion of Teleology, Paley, saw no difficulty in admitting that the " production of things " may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the centre, J that is to say, he proleptically... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - 580 pages
...acute champion of Teleology, Paley, saw no difficulty in admitting that the " production of things " may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appoinlment and kept in action by a power at the centre, f that is to say, he proleptically... | |
| William Elder - 1898 - 214 pages
...acute champion of teleology, Paley, saw no difficulty in admitting that the " production of things " may be the result of trains of mechanical dispositions fixed beforehand by intelligent appointment and kept in action by a power at the center — that is to say, he proleptically... | |
| 1914 - 884 pages
...collectively organized bodies by means of motions which we cannot explain. " There may be," he continues, " particular intelligent beings guiding these motions in each case; or they may be the result of *Darwiniana, p. 147. 'Huxley's Life and Letters, vol. ii., p. 113. 'Darwin's Life and Letters, vol.... | |
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