Freemasonary

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: N main arguments for the existence of God untouched? unless, indeed, as they may be indirectly approached through the only system of religion in which their proper place is assigned to them, and which, in all its parts, perfectly harmonises with them. The argument for the existence of God from the...
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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: N main arguments for the existence of God untouched? unless, indeed, as they may be indirectly approached through the only system of religion in which their proper place is assigned to them, and which, in all its parts, perfectly harmonises with them. The argument for the existence of God from the instances of design apparent in the structure both of plants and of animals has been much dwelt upon by writers on natural theology; and such instances in great number have been adduced, each calling for admiration of the wisdom of the great Creator. In no work of man do we see more evident adaptation of means to ends than we do in the structure of the human body, or in that of any ferior animal or any plant that we may examine. It is the less necessary to bring forward many instances of this kind here, because it has been so fully done in works accessible to every one, and some of which are familiar to all who have ever devoted their attention to such subjects. But instances of design and of wonderful and beautiful contrivance in the frames of organised and living beings are innumerable. Volume after volume might be filled with them, and the subject would not be exhausted, nor would our study of it seem to be at all approaching a termination. Even if we were to limit our inquiries to the human body, the case would still be the same. Every book on Anatomy or on Physiology is a contribution, however unintended, to the proof of the existence of God, afforded by the design and the perfection of wisdom apparent in His works. So is every book of Zoology, of Comparative Anatomy, or of Animal Physiology; every book of Botany or of Vegetable Physiology, that is, every book treating of plants, or of the structure of plants and the functions of their organs. And new discoveries are being mad...