| 1905 - 778 oldal
...worlds we see no chasms or gaps, * * * and when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the...perfection as we see they gradually descend from us downward; which, if it be probable, we have reason then to be persuaded that there are far more creatures... | |
| John W. Yolton - 1970 - 260 oldal
...(1) that the supposition is not inconceivable or repugnant to reason and (2) that the supposition ' is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe...great design and infinite goodness of the Architect' (3.6. 12). not ? ' (3 . 6. 9), and our classifications are based on observed properties only. There... | |
| Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 292 oldal
...but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the inni ite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1982 - 316 oldal
...insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Author of all things, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe and to the great design and infinite goodness of the Architect that the species of creatures should also,... | |
| Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 oldal
...and ended with much the same moral: "And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards."... | |
| Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1996 - 528 oldal
...insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the [Author of all things], we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe,1 and the great design and inf1nite goodness of the Architect, that the species of creatures... | |
| Jeanne Fahnestock - 1999 - 249 oldal
...members missing between humans and God. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the...should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. (362) Locke confidently... | |
| J. C. D. Clark - 2000 - 600 oldal
...but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the...Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, 159 Arthur O. Lovcjoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study oftlle History of an Idea (1933; 2nd cdn.,... | |
| Leslie Alan Horvitz - 2001 - 356 oldal
...the descent is by easy steps .... And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.... | |
| Donald Morris - 2006 - 470 oldal
...century — John Locke (1632-1704) "And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the...as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. . . . We have reason then to be persuaded that there are far more species of creatures above us than... | |
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