 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - Philosophy - 1936 - 404 pages
...several species are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.1... | |
 | John Dunn - History - 1969 - 314 pages
...humanly fully intelligible, not in any more metaphysical a sense. See, for example, '... when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upward from us toward his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards; which if it be... | |
 | John W. Yolton - Philosophy - 1970 - 260 pages
...(1) that the supposition is not inconceivable or repugnant to reason and (2) that the supposition ' is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe...great design and infinite goodness of the Architect' (3.6. 12). not ? ' (3 . 6. 9), and our classifications are based on observed properties only. There... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - Philosophy - 1982 - 292 pages
...are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the inni ite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think,...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.... | |
 | G. W. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Philosophy - 1982 - 316 pages
...insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Author of all things, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe and to the great design and infinite goodness of the Architect that the species of creatures should also,... | |
 | Dikka Berven - 1995 - 456 pages
...trouble of listing various strange creatures and ended with much the same moral: "And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards."... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - Mathematics - 1996 - 528 pages
...insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the [Author of all things], we have reason to think, that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony of the universe,1 and the great design and inf1nite goodness of the Architect, that the species of creatures... | |
 | Jeanne Fahnestock - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 249 pages
...degrees," to argue for the existence of the members missing between humans and God. And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...as we see they gradually descend from us downwards. (362) Locke confidently inferred the existence of a hierarchy completing the series, forming the "great... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - History - 2000 - 600 pages
...several Species are linked together, and differ but in almost insensible degrees. And when we consider the infinite Power and Wisdom of the Maker, we have...Species of Creatures should also, by gentle degrees, 159 Arthur O. Lovcjoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study oftlle History of an Idea (1933; 2nd cdn.,... | |
 | Leslie Alan Horvitz - Science - 2001 - 356 pages
...see no chasms or gaps. All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps .... And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have...of creatures should also, by gentle degrees, ascend upwards from us towards his infinite perfection, as we see they gradually descend from us downwards.... | |
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And when we consider the infinite power and wisdom of the Maker, we have reason to think that it is suitable to the magnificent harmony -of the universe, and the great design and infinite goodness of the architect, that the species o'f creatures should... 
