M. F. p. 48.
If all things be the result of matter, how comes a principle of reason to be con∣veyed
An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
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- An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
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- Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680.
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into us, by that which had it not inherent in it self.
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Sir C. W. The unreasonable∣ness of Atheism, page 92. The casual conjunction of these atoms could not make the
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world, because it is made with a principle of Reason; and they could not have induced such a principle by chance, unless some way or other they had it inherent in them∣selves before.
M. F.
This Hypothesis suppo∣seth, that to have been the effect of chance which carries in it the characters of a wise contrivance. Ibid.
Dr. Til. Serm. 1. p. 40.
Nothing can be more unrea∣sonable than obstinately to im∣pute an effect to chance, which carries in the very face of it all the arguments and characters of a wise de∣sign and contrivance.
M. F.
If the fabrick of the world be nothing but the result of the casual meeting, and conca∣tenation of Atoms, how comes it to pass, that by their daily motion and just∣ling one another, they do not dance themselves into more worlds. Ibid.
Sir Ch. Ibid. p. 91.
If the dancing motion of these Atoms in this fancied space did by chance first dance the world into this form, &c. what is the reason these Atoms never danced themselves into any thing else.