Philosophical Observations on the Analogy Between the Propagation of Animals and that of Vegetables ...C. Davis, 1752 - 276 páginas |
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Página 253 - No Traveller returns) puzzles the Will ; And makes us rather bear thofe Ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of. Thus...
Página 197 - ... itself. For my part, I fairly renounce every attempt to explain either its nature or connexion with the body : I am content with my confidence, that I have a reasoning faculty within myself, of which, together with my visible body, I am composed and constituted. It must be allowed, that through all the parts of nature there appears a most benevolent intention in the providence of God for man's preservation and comfort.
Página 218 - Or, if brutes be supposed to be bare engines* and machines, I admire and adore the divine artifice and skill in such a wonderful contrivance. But I shall deny then that they have any reason or sense, if they be nothing but matter. Omnipotence itself cannot create cogitative body. And 'tis not any imperfection in the power of God, but an incapacity in the subject. The ideas of matter and thought are absolutely incompatible ; and this the Cartesians themselves do allow.
Página 66 - Rudiment of the future Tree or Plant, capable of being propagated into fuch a Tree or Plant as it fprung from, and no other, according to its Kind.
Página 253 - ... afflictions and miseries, by the means of these powerful tyrants, all their lives, and at length, lie down in the dust, wronged and unredressed in this life ? If then there be not an hereafter for the soul, and if it be not conscious of past good and evil, where is the justice, where is the goodness, where is the mercy, where is the benevolence in giving being to mankind, for no other end but to suffer pains and misery at the hands of another; and what but partiality, (which is injustice in itself,)...
Página 57 - ... of the whole body; any more than a swarm of bees, or a crowd of men and women, can be conceived to make up one particular living creature, compounded and constituted of the aggregate of them all.
Página 14 - A substance incorporeal, but without sense and animadversion, pervading the whole matter of the universe, and exercising a plastical power therein, according to the sundry predispositions and occasions in the parts it works upon, raising such phenomena in the world, by directing the parts of matter and their motion, as cannot be resolved into mere mechanical powers...
Página 65 - Subftances they contain are alfo peculiarly and fpecifically different from thofe of each other in all their Qualities ; and their Offspring proceeds from them in the fame Manner as Animals proceed from their Parent Eggs.
Página 145 - Quantity of every one of the particular Juices of its Parent, each in its own peculiar Veflel, proportioned to the Capacity of its Receptacle, whether it be a primary or fecondary Organization of Tree or Plant ; or, in other Words, whether it be the Seed or Bud.
Página 82 - Manner of the Impregnation of the original Organization of either Animal or Vegetable, that is, how they are affected by the feveral Effluvia from the Male feminal Subftances, muft ever remain myfterious and unknown.