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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EVIDENCES OF DESIGN, DRAWN CHIEFLY FROM ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY [A Paper read before the American Institute of Christian Philosophy, March 4th, 1886.] By Andrew H. Smith, M.D., New York City. THREE months ago a paper was read before the Institute by the Rev. Henry A. Dows, on The Witness of the Conscience to God. In the discussion which followed I made some remarks which I have been asked to add to and put into the form of a paper. This I have done, and I trust that those of you who were present on that occasion will pardon the repetition of some of the points then brought forward. Except, perhaps, in those cases in which the Christian life is the outgrowth of a Christian education beginning in childhood, it seems evident that the intellect must be convinced of the existence of a God before the individual can accept the idea of a revelation from God. I say the intellect must be convinced, because at this stage the affections are not yet enlisted, and the intellect is the sole tribunal before which the question can be tried. If we trace any form of religion back to its origin, it will be found, as I believe, not in an impulse or instinct of the human mind to cling to something higher than itself, as has been alleged, but in the necessity felt by the intellect to account for the phenomena of nature. This necessity can be supplied only by the assumption of the existence of a creative power, and according to the notion formed of that power will be the particular form of religion. Up to this point the process has been a purely intellectual one, but when once the conception of a Supreme Being has taken shape, the emotions go out toward it, and love, fear, reverence and other attributes of the affections come into play. The abstract cause to be examined and reasoned abo...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781459042193
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 166
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1459042190
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 308 gr


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