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CHAP. XXVII - CONCLUSION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2010

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In all cafes, wherein the mind feels itfelf in danger of being confounded by variety, it is fure to reft upon a few ftrong points, or perhaps upon a fingle inftance. Amongft a multitude of proofs, it is one that does the bufinefs. If we obferve in any argument, that hardly two minds fix upon the fame inftance, the diverfity of choice fhews the ftrength of the argument, becaufe it fhews the number and competition of the examples. There is no fubject in which the tendency to dwell upon felect or fingle topics is fo ufual, becaufe there is no fubject, of which, in its full extent, the latitude is fo great, as that of natural hiftory applied to the proof of an intelligent Creator. For my part, I take my ftand in human anatomy: and the examples of mechanifm I fhould be apt to draw out from the copious catalogue which it fupplies, are the pivot upon which the head turns, the ligament within the focket of the hip joint, the pulley or trochlear mufcle of the eye, the epiglottis, the bandages which tie down the tendons of the wrift and inftep, the flit or perforated mufcles at the hands and feet, the knitting of the inteftines to the mefentery, the courfe of the chyle into the blood, and the conftitution of the fexes as extended throughout the whole of the animal creation.

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Natural Theology
Or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
, pp. 572 - 586
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2009
First published in: 1803

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  • CONCLUSION
  • William Paley
  • Book: Natural Theology
  • Online publication: 07 September 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693656.027
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  • CONCLUSION
  • William Paley
  • Book: Natural Theology
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  • CONCLUSION
  • William Paley
  • Book: Natural Theology
  • Online publication: 07 September 2010
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511693656.027
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