This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 edition. Excerpt: ... which they ascribe to their adversaries, whom they have unceasingly accused of attributing every thing to Chance, to blind causes, to dead and inert matter, incapable of acting by itself. We have, I think, sufficiently justified the partizans of nature, from these ridiculous accusations; we have, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1796 edition. Excerpt: ... which they ascribe to their adversaries, whom they have unceasingly accused of attributing every thing to Chance, to blind causes, to dead and inert matter, incapable of acting by itself. We have, I think, sufficiently justified the partizans of nature, from these ridiculous accusations; we have, throughout the whole, proved, and we repeat it, that Chance is. a word devoid of sense, which, as well as the word God, announces nothing but an ignorance of true causes. We have demonstrated, that matter is not dead; that nature, essentially active, and self-existent, had sufficient energy to produce all the beings which it contains, and all the phaenomena which we behold. We have, throughout, made it felt, that this cause was much more real, and more easy to be conceived, . than the fictitious, contradictory, inconceivable, and impossible cause, to which theology ascribes the honour of those great effects which it admires. We have represented that the incomprehensibility of natural effects was not a sufficient reason for assigning them a cause, still more incomprehensible than all those those of which we can have a knowledge. In fine, if the incomprehensibility of God does not authorize us to deny his existence, ' it is, at least, certain that the incompatibility of the attributes which they accord to him, authorizes us to deny that the being who unites them can be any thing more than a chimera, of which the existence is impossible. This granted, we shall be able to fix the sense that ought to be attached to the name of Atheist, which, notwithstanding, the theologians, on other occasions, lavish indiscriminately upon all those who deviate in any thing from their revered opinions. If by Atheist, be designated, a man who denieth the existence...
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