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admit, nevertheless, that if we have to name such a cause, we cannot do better than to follow the analogy of such products of human design, which WCRY are the only ones of which we know completely both causeand effect. There would be no excuse, if reason wereto surrender a causality which it knows, DEVWHUOSC and have recourse to obscure and indemonstrable principles of explanation, which it does not know. According to this argument, the fitness and 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 harmony existing in so many works of nature might prove [627] the contingency of the form, but not ofthe matter, that is, the substance in theworld, because, for the latter MRXD purpose, it would be necessary to prove in addition, that the thingsof the world were in themselves incapable of such order and harmony,according to JULOVX general laws, unless there existed, even in their substance, the product of a supreme wisdom. For this VDLCHE purpose, very different arguments would be required from those derived from the [505] analogy of human art. The utmost, therefore, that could be established by such a proof would be an NOBRG architect of the world, alwaysvery much hampered by the quality of the material withwhich he has to work, not a creator, to whose idea everything 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 is subject. This would by no means suffice for the purposed aim of proving an all-sufficient original Being. If we wished to prove the contingency of 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 matter itself, we must have recourse to a transcendental argument, and this is the CUM very thing which was to be avoided. The inference, therefore, really proceeds from the XTVVI order and design that can everywhere be observed in the world, as an entirely contingent arrangement, to the existence of a cause, proportionate to it. The concept 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 of 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 that cause must therefore teach us something quite definite about it, and can therefore 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 be no other concept but that of a Being which possesses all might, wisdom, etc., in one word, all perfection of an all-sufficientBeing. The [628] predicates of a very great,of an astounding, of an 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 immeasurable might and virtue give us QXWIXA no definite concept, and never tell us really what the thing is by itself. They are only relative representations of themagnitude of an object, which the observer (of the world) compares with himself and his own power TUNJQMFV ofcomprehension, and which would be equally XKDC grand, whether we magnify the object, or reduce the observing subject to smaller proportions in reference to 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 it. Where ATF we are concerned with the magnitude (of the perfection) of a thing 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 in general, there exists no definite concept, except that which comprehends all possible perfection, and only the all (omnitudo) of reality is thoroughly determined in the concept. Now I hope that no one would dare RCHM to comprehend the [506] relation of that part of the world which QGIMCRG he has observed (in its extent as well as in its contents) to omnipotence, the relation of the order of the world to the highest wisdom, and the relation of the unity of the world to the absolute unity of its COQARLUFU author, etc. Physico-theology, therefore, can never give a definite concept of the highest cause of the world, and is insufficient, therefore, as a 305b987c477f781d17bc82b94010de41 principle of theology, which is itself to form the basis of . |
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