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corporeal feelings." 15. "Evil is necessarily connected with and subservient to good, although in the next world there will be all good and no evil." 16. "By reason we can discover the necessary existence of a Deity, yet to be a sceptic on that subject is the first step to be a Christian, because reason not sufficiently proving it we fly to revealed truth." 17. "The power, which a man has by the comprehensiveness of his mind to enjoy the future, has no apparent limits." 18. "It is of no avail in the argument concerning the existence of a Deity, that we have no conception of him, since it does not imply impossibility of his existence that we have no idea at all upon the subject." INADMISSIBLE OR INCONCLUSIVE. 1. "The question of the existence of a Deity is important." 2. "A Theist has a higher sense of personal dignity than an atheist." 3. "The conduct of an atheist must give concern to those who are not so." 4. "An atheist believes himself to be, at his death, for ever excluded from returning life." 5. "There are more atheists than unbelievers in revelation." 6. "Men of letters may have the same bias to incredulity as others to credulity, because they are subject to a wrong association of ideas, as well as other persons though in a less degree." 7. "Whoever first made a thing, for example a chair or a table, must have had an adequate idea of it's nature and use." 8. "If a table had a designing cause, the tree from whence the wood came, and the man who made the table must have had a designing cause, which comprehended all the powers and properties of trees and men." 9. "All the visible universe, as far as we can judge, bears the marks of being one work, and therefore must have had a cause of infinite power and intelligence." 10. "We might as well say a table had no cause, as that the world had none." 11. "A Being originally and necessarily capable of comprehending itself, it is not improper to call infinite, for we can have no idea of any bounds to it's knowledge or power." 12. "A series of finite causes cannot possibly be carried back _ad infinitum_." 13. "Our imagination revolts at the idea of an intellectual soul of the universe, that is, of an intelligence resulting from arrangement." 14. "The
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