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1 online resource (1 electronic document (252 pages)) |
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Title ; Contents; Introduction; Section I -- Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of God Are Not Within Everybody's Reach; Section II -- Moral Proofs of the Existence of God Are Fitted to Every Man's Capacity; Section III -- Why so Few Persons Are Attentive to the Proofs Nature Affords of the Existence of God; Section IV -- All Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker; Section V -- Noble Comparisons Proving that Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker First Comparison, Drawn from Homer's ""Iliad""; Section VI -- Second Comparison, Drawn from the Sound of Instruments |
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Section VII -- Third Comparison, Drawn from a StatueSection VIII -- Fourth Comparison, Drawn from a Picture; Section IX -- A Particular Examination of Nature; Section X -- Of the General Structure of the Universe; Section XI -- Of the Earth; Section XII -- Of Plants; Section XIII -- Of Water; Section XIV -- Of the Air; Section XV -- Of Fire; Section XVI -- Of Heaven; Section XVII -- Of the Sun; Section XVIII -- Of the Stars; Section XIX -- Of Animals, Beasts, Fowl, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects; Section XX -- Admirable Order in Which All the Bodies that Make Up the Universe Are Ranged |
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Section XXI -- Wonders of the Infinitely LittleSection XXII -- Of the Structure or Frame of the Animal; Section XXIII -- Of the Instinct of the Animal; Section XXIV -- Of Food; Section XXV -- Of Sleep; Section XXVI -- Of Generation; Section XXVII -- Though Beasts Commit Some Mistakes, Yet Their Instinct is, in Many Cases, Infallible; Section XXVIII -- It is Impossible Beasts Should Have Souls; Section XXIX -- Sentiments of Some of the Ancients Concerning the Soul and Knowledge of Beasts; Section XXX -- Of Man; Section XXXI -- Of the Structure of Man's Body; Section XXXII -- Of the Skin |
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Section XXXIII -- Of Veins and ArteriesSection XXXIV -- Of the Bones, and Their Jointing; Section XXXV -- Of the Organs; Section XXXVI -- Of the Inward Parts; Section XXXVII -- Of the Arms and Their Use; Section XXXVIII -- Of the Neck and Head; Section XXXIX -- Of the Forehead and Other Parts of the Face; Section XL -- Of the Tongue and Teeth; Section XLI -- Of the Smell, Taste, and Hearing; Section XLII -- Of the Proportion of Man's Body; Section XLIII -- Of the Soul, Which Alone, Among All Creatures, Thinks and Knows; Section XLIV -- Matter Cannot Think |
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Section XLV -- Of the Union of the Soul and Body, of Which God Alone Can Be the AuthorSection XLVI -- The Soul Has an Absolute Command Over the Body; Section XLVII -- The Power of the Soul Over the Body is Not Only Supreme or Absolute, but Blind at the Same Time; Section XLVIII -- The Sovereignty of the Soul Over the Body Principally Appears in the Images Imprinted in the Brain; Section XLIX -- Two Wonders of the Memory and Brain; Section L -- The Mind of Man is Mixed with Greatness and Weakness Its Greatness Consists in Two Things First, the Mind Has the Id |
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Section LI -- The Mind Knows the Finite Only by the Idea of the Infinite |
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François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (1651 - 1715), was a French Roman Catholic theologian, poet and writer. He today is remembered mostly as one of the main advocates of quietism and as the author of The Adventures of Telemachus, a scabrous attack on the French monarchy, first published in 1699. If a great number of men of subtle and penetrating wit have not discovered God with one cast of the eye upon nature, it is not matter of wonder; for either the passions they have been tossed by have still rendered them incapable of any fixed reflection, o |
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Archived by the National Library of New Zealand |
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Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 28, 2011) |
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"First published in 1688"--Title page verso |
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Hypertext links contained in the archived instances of this title are non-functional. Nz |
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English |
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God -- Proof, Ontological -- Early works to 1800
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Natural theology -- Early works to 1800
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General.
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God -- Proof, Ontological
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Natural theology
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Philosophy & Religion.
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Philosophy.
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Early works
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Electronic book
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9781775416319 |
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1775416313 |
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1776510321 |
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9781776510320 |
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