 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
 | Jeanne Fahnestock - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 249 pages
...degrees," to argue for the existence of the members missing between humans and God. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. (362) Locke confidently... | |
 | Jeanne Fahnestock - Figures of speech - 1999 - 249 pages
...Architect, that the species of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. (362) Locke confidently inferred the existence of a hierarchy completing the series, forming the "great... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - History - 2000 - 600 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...Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, 159 Arthur O. Lovcjoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study oftlle History of an Idea (1933; 2nd cdn.,... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...see no chasms or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps .... 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.... | |
 | Donald Morris - Philosophy - 2006 - 470 pages
...gap."48 The great chain of being in the 17th century — John Locke (1632-1704) "And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. . . . We have reason then to be persuaded that there are far more species of creatures above us than... | |
 | Lex Newman - Philosophy - 2007 - 18 pages
...have ideas of them. This claim is in fact the conclusion of E III.vi.i2: 447: And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have...Which if it be probable, we have reason then to be perswaded, that there are far more Species of Creatures above us, than there are beneath; we being... | |
 | John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1800 - 540 pages
...several species are linked together, and differ but in almost msensible 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... | |
 | John Hamilton Moore - Conduct of life - 1806 - 402 pages
...species are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. 16. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable » the magnificent harmony of the universe, and the great design and infinite goodness of the architect,... | |
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