 | William Paley - Theology - 1810 - 498 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...they imply consciousness and thought. They require * It must here however be stated, that many astronomers deny that any of the heavenly bodies are absolutely... | |
 | William Paley - God - 1811 - 574 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...of providing means, and of directing them to their end*. They require a centre in which perceptions unite, and from which volitions flow ; which is mind.... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1819 - 302 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...a person. These capacities constitute personality, fo/ thoy imply consciousness, and thought. They require that which can perceive an end or purpose ;... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - College verse - 1821 - 60 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...of providing means, and of directing them to their end. They require a center in which perceptions unite, and from which volitions flow; which is mind.... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...require that which can perceive an end or purpose ; as wejl as the power of providing means, and of directing them to their end.* They require a centre in... | |
 | Sunday schools - 1824 - 412 pages
...Personality of the Deity. — CONTRIVANCE, among other things, proves the personality of the Deity. That which can contrive, which can design, must be a person. These capaci* God moves the earth which we inhabit at the rate of sixty-eight thousand miles an hour. Every... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - Bible - 1825 - 424 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...of providing means, and of directing them to their end*. They require a centre in which perceptions unite, and from which volitions flow; which is mind.... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1825 - 440 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...of providing means, and of directing them to their end*. They require a centre in which perceptions unite, and from which volitions flow ; which is mind.... | |
 | William Paley - Natural history - 1826 - 320 pages
...them philosophically, seem to be intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but to exclude and to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive,...thought. They require that which can perceive an end or Surpose; as well as the power of providing means, and of irecting them to their end.* They require... | |
 | William Paley - Natural theology - 1830 - 296 pages
...sometimes called a principle : which terms, in the mouths of those who use them philosophically, seem to he intended, to admit and to express an efficacy, but...of providing means, and of directing them to their end. * They require a centre in which perceptions unite, and from which volitions flow ; which is mind.... | |
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... to deny a personal agent. Now that which can contrive, which can design, must be a person. These capacities constitute personality, for they imply consciousness and thought. They require that which can perceive an end or purpose ; as well as the power... 
