 | 1820 - 590 pages
...governments, unwise laws, and all evils of this class, correspond to the inundations — the droughts — the tornadoes, and the earthquakes of the natural world....at all that bears marks of design."* * Archbishop Wbitely. Our subsequent reasonings then, are all to be grounded upon the nature of man and his present... | |
 | Richard Whately - Economics - 1847 - 344 pages
...I have stated my own view of some of the most important of the questions now alluded to. tornados, and the earthquakes, of the natural world. We cannot...indeed of any thing at all that bears marks of design. Another point which is attainable is, to perceive, amidst all the admixture of evil, and all the *... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...the limits appointed for the human faculties, and to " be as Gods, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL ! " sure, but bears equally heavy on Deism and on Christianity,...indeed of any thing at all that bears marks of design. Another point which is attainable is, to perceive, amidst all the admixture of evil, and all the seeming... | |
 | Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 398 pages
...the limits appointed for the tinman faculties, and to " be as Cuds, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL ! I" sure, but bears equally heavy on Deism and on Christianity,...indeed of any thing at all that bears marks of design. Another point which is attainable is, to perceive, amidst all the admixture of evil, and all the seeming... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...and more perceive to be the only difficulty in theology, the existence of evil in the Universe.1 ' But two things we can accomplish ; which are very...indeed of any thing at all that bears marks of design. ' Another point which is attainable is, to perceive, amidst all the admixture of evil, and all the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 pages
...one scheme of I'eligion in particular. Even atheism does not lessen our difficulty ; it only aliens the character of it. For as the believer in a God...to account for the existence of good; or indeed of anything at all that bears marks of design. 'Another point which is attainable is, to perceive, amidst... | |
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But two things we can accomplish ; which are very important, and which are probably all that our present faculties and extent of knowledge can attain to. One is, to perceive clearly that the difficulty in question is of no unequal pressure, but bears... 