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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1853 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXII. THE DOCTRINE OF PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT. One important object of this treatise, as doubtless has been observed, is to exhibit the connection of nature with her interior, producing Cause, and pervading Life-force. The reader who has attentively followed us in the previous discussions having a bearing upon this subject, has observed that our philosophy has uniformly tended to the idea of an intelligent, voluntative Divine Agency, as concerned in the origin and government of the outer system of things. But as Our object should be to discover truth for the sake of truth, irrespective of its character or consequences, it would be manifestly inconsistent to ignore any facts or manifest principles of nature which have been thought by any party in philosophy to militate against conclusions such as those exhibited in our previous reasonings. As the next natural step beyond the foregoing investigations, therefore, we proceed to briefly notice the merits of a pending controversy, embracing, substantially, the questions, whether the system of nature is the result of Hie operation of an inherent force or law of progressive development? or whether it is the result of a series of special and independent exertions of Divine Power, with little or nn regard to law? Though these questions suggest two opposite views, neither of which we are able to adopt without some important qualifications, it is proper that they should here be exhibited, together with the main features of the discussions they have engendered, in the form in which they have extensively occupied the minds of philosophers and theologians of late years; and it may be, that in the light developed by their conflicting affirmative and negative arguments, a true modified theory will be brought into vi...
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