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Francis Bowen. against the argument from design , which represents him as using means for the attainment of specific and limited ends ; as if the use of any means whatever were a supposition derogatory to Omnipotence . That our knowledge ...
Francis Bowen. against the argument from design , which represents him as using means for the attainment of specific and limited ends ; as if the use of any means whatever were a supposition derogatory to Omnipotence . That our knowledge ...
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... means to one end ; the means being varied just so far as to preserve a constant relation to the several media through which vision takes place , and to the purposes of the animal for which sight is required . The crystalline humor of ...
... means to one end ; the means being varied just so far as to preserve a constant relation to the several media through which vision takes place , and to the purposes of the animal for which sight is required . The crystalline humor of ...
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... means , yet without any apparent consciousness of the difference between means and ends ; that it acts , in truth , by impulse , and not through re- flection , at least , as much so as the man who has gained by habit the power of ...
... means , yet without any apparent consciousness of the difference between means and ends ; that it acts , in truth , by impulse , and not through re- flection , at least , as much so as the man who has gained by habit the power of ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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