 | Books - 1822 - 386 pages
...any inferior and subordinate instruments. — Moreover it seems not so agreeable to reason neither, that nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...confuted by that slow and gradual process, that is in the generation of things, which would seem to be but a vain and idle pomp, or a trifling formality, if... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1822 - 426 pages
...any inferior and subordinate instruments. — Moreover it seems not so agreeable to reason neither, that nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...nothing, God himself doing all things immediately ami miraculously ; from whence it would follow also, that they are all done either forcibly and violently,... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 686 pages
...phenomenon into a miracle. " It seems not so agreeable to reason," says the learned and profound Cudworth, " that nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...none of them by any inward principle of their own." The author accordingly adopts the hypothesis of a certain plastic nut are t as he terms it, or a vital,... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - Atheism - 1837 - 810 pages
...those lower things done here upon earth. — Moreover, it seems not so agreeable to reason neither, that nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...further confuted by that slow and gradual process, that it is in the generations of things, which would seem to be but a vain and idle pomp, or a trifling... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - Atheism - 1845 - 694 pages
...of those lower things done here upon earth." Moreover, it seems not so agreeable to reason neither, that nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...none of them by any inward principle of their own. Ъавиу, This opinion is further confuted by that slow and gradual process, that is in the generations... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1846 - 506 pages
...to every work, and immediately do all the meanest and triflingest things himself drudgingly ; * * * from whence it would follow also, that they are all...none of them by any inward principle of their own." * We state the difficulty in the words of Cudworth, rather than of this writer, both as being less... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - Religion and science - 1878 - 564 pages
...Moreover, he continues, it seems not so agreeable to reason, that nature should be quite superseded, " God Himself doing all things immediately and miraculously...none of them by any inward principle of their own." (Here Cudworth plays directly into the hands of his materialistic opponents, in admitting that whatever... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - Subconsciousness - 1880 - 524 pages
...Moreover, he continues, it seems not so agreeable to reason, that nature should be quite superseded, " God Himself doing all things immediately and miraculously...none of them by any inward principle of their own." (Here Cudworth plays directly into the hands of his materialistic opponents, in admitting that whatever... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - Philosophy - 1884 - 410 pages
...a supreme mind, and not as itself supreme. " It seems not so agreeable to reason," says Cudworth, " that Nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...none of them by any inward principle of their own. " This opinion is further confuted by that slow and gradual process that is in the generation of things,... | |
 | John Rickaby - First philosophy - 1890 - 420 pages
...bodies. Cudworth's remark is good as far as it goes,15 " that it seems not so agreeable to Nature, that Nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should...or made to signify nothing, God Himself doing all the things immediately." Clarke was openly an occasionalist in respect to matter ; Locke sets the question... | |
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Moreover it seems not so agreeable to reason neither, that nature, as a distinct thing from the Deity, should be quite superseded or made to signify nothing, God himself doing all things immediately and miraculously ; from whence it would follow also,... 
