This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...what he knows, but what he does not know, touching matters not strictly connected with his argument, that is, not forming the very steps of his deduction. Beyond these, his knowledge and his ignorance are alike relative." That is to say are irrelative to the matter in hand. 1 Natural Theology, chap. v. sec. 7. But by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ...what he knows, but what he does not know, touching matters not strictly connected with his argument, that is, not forming the very steps of his deduction. Beyond these, his knowledge and his ignorance are alike relative." That is to say are irrelative to the matter in hand. 1 Natural Theology, chap. v. sec. 7. But by the seeming waste and the apparent failures and imperfections of nature, we are brought to face a difficulty regarding the power, wisdom, and goodness of its Designer. We come now to the more important and difficult question of interpreting the designs of the Creator. The position which we defend is, that--though his ways are as much higher than our ways, and his thoughts than our thoughts, as the heavens are higher than the earth, --his name is something better than the " Unknowable." We do know something about the heavens. The heavenly bodies are set for the dividing of times and seasons. The fugitive and the sailor know something, though far less than the astronomer, about the north star. "We may find God, though we can never find him out." One may endeavor to point out the means of rescuing the doctrine of final causes from the general disrepute into which it has fallen in some quarters; and from certain objections, supposed to be new, arising in connection with Darwinism. There are, indeed, few subjects upon which there has been so much loose speculation as upon that of the interpretation of the reasons which have actuated the Divine Mind in the creation of particular things. The arrogance of our shortsighted wisdom in pronouncing upon the ultimate reason why certain things are brought into existence has often been so manifest and so offensive, that it is not surprising that some phnosopners have gone to the other e...
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