...if she could, a precarious independence. — Mackintosh. LESSON V.— FKIDAY. THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor woald it, perhaps, be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch...

...on the steep, her blazing faggots burn, To hail the bark that never can return. — Campbell. A 5. In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might probably answer, that for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever ; nor perhaps...

...yielded to the cause of truth have rendered such a concession now impossible to be made. He says : " In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how • This argument has been well illustrated by 'Wollaston : — " Suppose a chain hung down out of...

...being of a God. Paley begins his work on Natural Theology with the following well-known passage : ' In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...knew to the contrary, it had lain there for ever. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...

...intelligent maker. We must infer a designing mind wherever, in any object, we see fitness and use :* 'In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever ; nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity * Once more we are reminded of the...

...Paley's first argument is defective; it is most apt and impressive; what reader is unfamiliar with it? "In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...came to be there; I might possibly answer, that, for any thing I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever; nor would it, perhaps, be very easy to...

...intelligent maker. We must infer a designing mind wherever, in any object, we see fitness and use: ' Mn crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against...the stone came to be there; I might possibly answer, tlmt. for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever; nor would it perhaps be very...

...intelligent maker. We must infer a designing mind wherever, in any object, we see fitness and use: ' 'In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a stone, and were asked how the stone came to he there; I might possibly answer, that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there forever;...

...producing it. Or, as Archdeacon Palcy well put it, ' If in crossing a heath I should strike my foot upon a stone, and were asked how the stone came to be there, I might answer that, for aught I knew, it might have been there for ever. But if I found a watch iu the same...

...were found ; and very soon satisfied themselves of the genuineness and importance of this discover)'. There were many who at first denied that they afforded...and were " asked how the stone came to be there, I mi?ht possibly answer " that, for anything I knew to the contrary, it had lain there for "ever: nor...