 | David Hume - Aesthetics - 1757 - 260 pages
...nature befpcaks an intelligent author ; and no rational enquirer can, after ferious reflexion, fufpend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles...concerning the origin of religion 'in human nature, admits of fome more difficulty. The belief of invifible, intelligent power has been very generally... | |
 | David Hume - Essays - 1779 - 548 pages
...nature beipeaks an intelligent author ; and no rational enquirer can, after ferious reflection, fufpend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles...is expofed to fome more difficulty. The belief of inviflble, intelligent power has been very generally diffufed over the human race, in all places and... | |
 | David Hume - 1826 - 628 pages
...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. But the other question, concerning the origin of religion in human nature, is... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...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." Hume on the Natural History of Religion. f " I know, for I can demonstrate, by... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1836 - 290 pages
...says, " the whole face of nature bespeaks an intelligent author, and no rational inquirer can suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism." § 12. — But how does the face of nature bespeak an intelligent author ? Because it bespeaks... | |
 | Criticism - 1843 - 644 pages
...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,... | |
 | Henry Townley - 1852 - 110 pages
...nature bespeaks an intelligent Author; and DO rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion. — Hume's Natural History of Jicliffion. Though the stupidity of men, barbarous... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophy - 1854 - 576 pages
...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. But the other question, concerning the origin of religion in human nature, is... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...acknowledged that in a practical point of view 'no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion.* Above all, he denounced as disingenuous disputants all those who denied the reality... | |
 | English literature - 1869 - 596 pages
...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 Itcligion.' — Natural History of Religion. Hume's defence of Theism was a defence, indeed,... | |
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The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion. 
