...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...

...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...

...most implicit faith in the argument from design. In the " Natural History of Religion," Hume says : " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent...primary principles of genuine theism and religion. Were men led into apprehension of invisible, intelligent power by a contemplation of the works of nature,...

...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." Moreover, this "genuine theism," on Hume's premisses, is only the attenuated theism which infers, from...

...clearest solution. The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent Author, and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.' This is possibly more strongly phrased than Hume might at all times be willing to approve of ; but...

...any presbyter." Thus Hume's boasted liberality turns round into the sheerest tyranny. his belief for a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion." l We are apt to suspect that here again we are on the track of sarcasm ; and the rest of the treatise...

...from the brutes."1 "The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent author, and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief a moment with regard to the primary principles of a genuine Theism and Religion."2 "I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise...

...Further, he himself 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." 4 Skelton. — Another writes : — " I can follow Him but one or two steps in His lowest and plainest...

...Further, he himself admits 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." 4 Skelton.—Another writes:—" I can follow Him but one or two steps in His lowest and...

...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 a...