 And, when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe, and the great design and infinite goodness of the Architect, that the species of creatures should...  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - Page 475by John Locke - 1805 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Honoré de Balzac - 1896 - 592 pages
...hence, that in all the visible corporeal world we see no chasms or gaps. . . . And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us toward his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1896 - 870 pages
...Maker, we have reason to think that it is Hiiittiblt to the uiagnincent harmony of the universe tlmt the species of creatures should also by gentle degrees ascend upward from us. ADDISOV. COST, KXPEN8E, PIUCE, CHARGE. COST, in German, etc., host or tauten, signifies originally... | |
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - 438 pages
...several species are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downward : which, if it be probable, we have reason then to be persuaded that there are far more species... | |
 | Parapsychology - 1905 - 778 pages
...hence, that in all the visible and corporeal worlds we see no chasms or gaps, * * * and when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...perfection as we see they gradually descend from us downward; which, if it be probable, we have reason then to be persuaded that there are far more creatures... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - Philosophy - 1936 - 404 pages
...several species are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.1... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1970 - 260 pages
...(1) that the supposition is not inconceivable or repugnant to reason and (2) that the supposition ' is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe...great design and infinite goodness of the Architect' (3.6. 12). not ? ' (3 . 6. 9), and our classifications are based on observed properties only. There... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - Philosophy - 1982 - 292 pages
...are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the inni ite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think,...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.... | |
 | G. W. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Philosophy - 1982 - 316 pages
...insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Author of all things, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe and to the great design and infinite goodness of the Architect that the species of creatures should also,... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 pages
...trouble of listing various strange creatures and ended with much the same moral: "And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards."... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the [Author of all things], we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe,1 and the great design and inf1nite goodness of the Architect, that the species of creatures... | |
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