...of theology, does little more than express the writer's contentment with the argument from design. " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion."— (IV. p. 135.) " Were men led into the apprehension of invisible, intelligent power by a contemplation...

...bespeaks an intelligent author ; and ' no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, sus' pend his belief a moment with regard to the primary ' principles of genuine theism and religion.' Dr. Huxley quotes this himself in another chapter, and then tries to explain it away by virtue of some...

...mathematical form, yet he admits that ' the whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent Author,' and that ' no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection,...primary principles of genuine theism and religion' (iv. 435). In fact, the whole scope of his argument is shown in the sentences with which he concludes...

...of Eeligion he protests that " the whole frame of Nature bespeaks an Intelligent Author", and that " no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection,...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Eeligion " (Works, iv. 485). In his Dialogues concerning Natural Eeligion he is still more emphatic....

...the appearance of candor. Such are the following respecting an intelligent Author of the world : " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent...primary principles of genuine theism and religion. ... A purpose, an intention, a design, is evident in everything ; and when our comprehension is so...

..."The whole frame of nature," he says, in the introduction to this 'Natural History of Eeligion,' " bespeaks an Intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Eeligion." Elsewhere (sect vi.), he speaks of "those invincible reasons on which it" — ie, the doctrine...

...which explains nothing. The first question appears to him to be the most important ; and " happily it admits of the most obvious, at least the clearest...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Eeligion." Notwithstanding this expression, Hume has not regarded it as superfluous to subject this...

...an Position in " The Natural History of Religion". 117 intelligent author ; and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...generally diffused over the human race, in all places and in all ages ; but it has neither perhaps been so universal as to admit of no exception, nor has it...

...of theology, does little more than express the writer's contentment with the argument from design. " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.—(IV. p. 435.) " Were men led into the apprehension of invisible, intelligent power, by...

...intelligent Author," and that " no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief for a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion." And this " genuine theism " of Hume can be only that attenuated theism, which infers, from observed...