Excerpt from Natural Theology as a Positive Science It is not, however, as a course of scientific lectures that this work has any claim to originality, or challenges critical notice. Its ostensible object is to present unassailable arguments for the doctrines of natural religion from the facts of chemistry alone. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Science of Natural Theology, or God the Unconditioned Cause, and God the Infinite and Perfect, as Revealed in Creation In the above remarks we have indicated the method in conformity to which we shall attempt, in the following Treatise, to develop and elucidate the science of Natural Theology. We propose in this, the introductory chapter, the statement and elucidation of certain important princi ples, which have a general, but fundamental, bearing upon our investigations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Class Book of Natural Theology: Or the Testimony of Nature to the Being, Perfections, and Government of God To whatever quarter We turn our eye, we find ample mate rials for this study. Animate and inanimate natu-te are alike A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Natural Theology: An Inquiry Into the Fundamental Principles of Religious, Moral, and Political Science Immediate sources of political power - In so far the words right, ought, and duty can have no place in political science - Theory of compact, as the foundation of political rights, untenable - Theory of a tacit admission of such compact untenable - Submission to a government does not necessarily imply a recognition of its authority - Utility of government does not necessarily imply a recognition of the rights of those that administer it in any particular case Paley correct in resting political rights on the will of God, but wrong in assuming the Will of God to be col lected from expediency The will of God declared in the actually existing constitution of things - This theory explained and vindicated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on Natural Theology, or Nature and the Bible From the Same Author: Delivered Before the Lowell Institute, Boston TO the leading idea in these lectures, exceptions will be taken by some at the outset; especially by those who, following the lead Of Compte, regard all inquiries respecting efficient and final causes as unphilosophical and useless. The world is here represented as having been made for man. To him as an intelligent and moral being, all nature is subservient. Where he has to yield, it is not evidence, that man is disregarded in the mechanism Of the universe, nor is he overcome as inferior to inanimate nature but it is simply the individual suffering under the operation of some law made inflexible for the benefit of the race. And when all had been done for man that it seems possible to do through an irrational creation, and his highest wants were still unprovided for, the Bible was given to complete the provision. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Principles of Natural Theology It follows from what we have said that in the Scholastic philosophy Natural Theology is no um essential adjunct, no mere afterthought, but a substantive and vital part of the system, without which it would be radically incomplete. It claims to establish from assured first principles the exist ence of'a Supreme Being, distinct from the finite and mutable things of experience. It maintains, further, that though the limitations of the human intellect render all our knowledge of Him inade quate, we are not wholly ignorant of His nature. There are certain attributes which can be affirmed of Him with certainty, though they are His in a manner more 'perfect than any which we can imagine. Above all, He is' intelligent and free, and therefore possessed of personality. In Him it finds the source and origin of all finite beings, and the final cause in view of which such beings exist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Natural Theology, or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity: Collected From the Appearances of Nature In possession of so liberal a provision in the chu-rchpas abundantly to satisfy my wants, and much to exceed my pretensions. Your Lordship's munificeuce, in conjunction 'vith that of some other excellent Prelates, who regarded lay services with the partiality with which our Lordship 'avas pleased to consider them, hath since p need me in se clesiastical situations, more than adequate to every object Qf reasonable ambition. In the mean time. A weak, and, Of late, a painful state of health, deprived me of the power of discharging the duties of my station, in a mannerttall suitable, either to my sense of those duties, or to my most anxious wishes concerning them. My inability for the public functions of m profession, amo t other conse quences, left me mucli at leisure. That cisara was not to be lost. It was only in my study that I could re air my deficiencies in the church. It was only through t e press that I could s ak. These circumstances, in particular, entitled our ordship to call upon me for the only species of exertion of which was ca ble, and disposed me, with out hesitation, to obey the c l in the best manner that I could. In the choice of a subject I had no place left. (qt doubt: in saying which, I do not so much reier, Sweet t? Of the subject, or to any sun? Which the present. Tunes on. Ged, as I do, to its connexion with the subjects treated of in my former publications. The following discussion alone was wanted to make up m works into a system: in which works, such as they are, t e ublic have now before them, the evidences of natural religion, the evidences of re vealed religion, and an account of the duties that result from both. It is of small importance, that they have been written in an order, the very reverse of that in which they ought to he read. I commend therefore the present vol ume to your Lordship's protection, not only as, in all prob ability, my last labour, but as the completion of a consist ent and comprehensive design. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Natural Theology, Vol. 1 Message; the judgment to which both the obedient and the rebellious will be summoned at the end of the world; and the destinies which respectively await them, in that everlasting economy which is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Studies in the History of Natural Theology No one can be more conscious than myself of the super ficiality of the treatment Which is here accorded to a subject requiring and deserving a far more thorough investigation. I can only plead in my own excuse that an Oxford college tutor can only undertake Work such as belongs to the Lectureship Which I was privileged to hold from to 1914, if he is prepared to accomplish less than might reasonably be demanded from a lecturer able to devote the Whole or even the major part of his time to the duties of the lectureship. The present work was written before Professor Burnet's Greek Philosophy from Thales to Plato had appeared, and was already in print before I had an opportunity of reading that very important contribution to the study of the philosopher with whom my second course of lectures is con cerned. It seemed out of the question at so late a stage to attempt the task of remodelling what I had said, in View of the new light there thrown upon the subject. But I am on the whole disposed to think that, had such a revision been practicable, no very substantial changes would have resulted. In speaking, as I have often had occasion to speak, of the legacy of Veneration for the heavenly bodies bequeathed by Plato and Aristotle to the Natural Theology of the Middle Ages, I should no doubt have taken more pains to dissociate Plato from the Aristotelian contrast of the quintessential heavens and the sublunary world of grosser matter. But I had nowhere attributed to Plato this contrast as an express doctrine; and, on the other hand, the important fact, to which Professor Burnet has called attention, that Plato reckoned the earth as itself a planet - a fact from which it follows that his recognition of a divinity in the starry heavens did not imply a disparagement of the earth as being of a quite different and inferior nature - had so little influence upon the tradition with which I am here concerned that his authority went after all, though not by his own fault, to reinforce the authority of Aristotle in encouraging a notion equally injurious to the progress of religion and to that of natural science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.