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" The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion. "
An inquiry concerning human understanding. A dissertation on the passions ... - Page 383
by David Hume - 1817
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The New Englander, Volume 1

1843 - 644 pages
...of nature bespeaks an intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer can, after serious reffection, suspend his belief a moment, with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion." Although he regards the origin of religion among mankind as involved in obscurity, yet he ventures...
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Report of a public discussion carried on by Henry Townley ... and George ...

Henry Townley - 1852 - 110 pages
...obvious, at least the clearest solution. The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent Author; and DO rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend...primary principles of genuine theism and religion. — Hume's Natural History of Jicliffion. Though the stupidity of men, barbarous and uninstructed,...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 61

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1860 - 896 pages
...a natural instinct elicited into act by custom.* He acknowledged that in a practical point of view 'no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection,...primary principles of genuine theism and religion.* Above all, he denounced as disingenuous disputants all those who denied the reality of right and wrong....
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 127

1869 - 588 pages
...isms.' There was, however, one ' ism ' which Hume strongly supported by argument, viz., Theism : . The whole frame of Nature bespeaks an intelligent...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.' — Natural History of Religion. Hume's defence of Theism was a defence, indeed, with sinister limits...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 127

1869 - 596 pages
...isms.' There was, however, one 'ism ' which Hume strong! v supported by argument, viz., Theism : ' The whole frame of Nature bespeaks an intelligent...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Itcligion.' — Natural History of Religion. Hume's defence of Theism was a defence, indeed, with sinister...
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A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research

Charles Bray - 1871 - 386 pages
...'(Bacon, Essays, 17.) > " The whole frame of Nature bespeaks an intelligent author ; and no intelligent inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion." — (D. Hume, '' Dialogues concerning Natural Religion," part 10.) Hume, however, rejected with scorn...
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A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research

Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 pages
...(Bacon, Essays, 17.) " The whole frame of Nature bespeaks an intelligent author ; and no intelligent inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion."—(D. Hume, "Dialogues concerning Natural Religion," part 10.) Hume, however, rejected with...
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Religious Thought in England, from the Reformation to the End of ..., Volume 3

John Hunt - 1873 - 494 pages
...his own person, clearly declares himself on the side of Theism. The whole frame of nature, he says, bespeaks an intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer...primary principles of genuine Theism and religion. This belief Hume thinks is not an original instinct or primary impression. It is the result of reasoning....
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The philosophy of natural theology, an essay which obtained a prize at ...

William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...subject it to practical reason, as he understood reason's verdict." He even went so far as to say that " The whole frame of Nature bespeaks an Intelligent...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion." (Natural History of Rclig ion, Introdnetion.) Indeed, according to Cueheval Clarigny,* Hume was an...
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - 1874 - 432 pages
...subject it to practical reason, as he understood reason's verdict." He even went so far as to say that " The whole frame of Nature bespeaks an Intelligent...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion." (Natural History of Religion, Introduction.) Indeed, according to Cucheval Clarigny,* Hume was an "...
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