 | Joseph Butler - 1872 - عدد الصفحات: 386
...what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural...miraculous does to effect it for once. And from hence it musl follow, that persons' notion of what is natural will be enlarged, in proportion to their greater... | |
 | J. Butler - 1873 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times; as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once. Hence it must follow, that persons' notion of what is natural, will be enlarged in proportion to their... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...meaning of the word (natural) is stated, fixed, or settled, and from hence it must follow that a person's notion of what is ' natural' will be enlarged in proportion...works of God and the dispensations of His providence." . . . . " We are placed, as we may speak, in the middle of a scheme, not a fixed, but a progressive... | |
 | Charles Darwin - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie, to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous docs to effect it for once." BUTLER: Analogy of Revealed Kcliytan. " To conclude, therefore, let no... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent mind to render it so — that is, to effect it continually or at stated times — as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once." These far-reaching propositions consist wholly of celebrated words from Butler's Analogy (part 1, chap.... | |
 | Asa Gray - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so — ie, to effect it continually or at stated times — as what is supernatural or miraculous doe3 to effect it for once." — Butler's Analogy. legitimate for any one to prove, if he can, that... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 650
...natural as much requires. and presupposes an intelligent mind to render it so — that is, to effect it continually or at stated times — as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once ' "" (p. 113). From these premises it is impossible to evolve an argument that can in any manner detract... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 1082
...is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, that is, to affect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once."* Natural, as distinguished from Innate or Instinctive. " There is a great deal of difference," said... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie, to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it at once."— BUTLER'S " Analogy of Religion," Part I. Natural Religion, Chap. i. • STATE OF THE CASE.... | |
 | Joseph William Reynolds - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie, to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it at once." — BUTLER'S "Analogy of Religion," Part I. Natural Religion, Chap. i. STATE OF THE CASE.... | |
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But the only distinct meaning of that word is, stated, fixed, or settled: since what is natural as much requires, and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, ie to effect it continually, or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous... 
