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If I understood aright what I read , I must suppose that at the begin- ning the two forces of cosmical attraction and repul- sion balanced so that the universe remained for untold ages in a state of perfect equilibrium .
If I understood aright what I read , I must suppose that at the begin- ning the two forces of cosmical attraction and repul- sion balanced so that the universe remained for untold ages in a state of perfect equilibrium .
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... universe exists it must have a cause and this cause is the Creator . A third , the argument from design , which Kant said was the clearest , oldest and best suited to human reason , is thus stated by one of the characters in Hume's ...
... universe exists it must have a cause and this cause is the Creator . A third , the argument from design , which Kant said was the clearest , oldest and best suited to human reason , is thus stated by one of the characters in Hume's ...
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It may be that this planet alone can support life , or it may be that in other parts of the universe other planets have had the possibility of forming a suitable environment to that substance from which , we suppose , along the vast ...
It may be that this planet alone can support life , or it may be that in other parts of the universe other planets have had the possibility of forming a suitable environment to that substance from which , we suppose , along the vast ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | W. Heinemann, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0434456101, 9780434456109 |
| Length | 317 pages |
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