...the appearance of candor. Such are the following respecting an intelligent Author of the world : " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent...primary principles of genuine theism and religion. ... A purpose, an intention, a design, is evident in everything ; and when our comprehension is so...

..."The whole frame of nature," he says, in the introduction to this 'Natural History of Eeligion,' " bespeaks an Intelligent Author ; and no rational inquirer...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Eeligion." Elsewhere (sect vi.), he speaks of "those invincible reasons on which it" — ie, the doctrine...

...which explains nothing. The first question appears to him to be the most important ; and " happily it admits of the most obvious, at least the clearest...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Eeligion." Notwithstanding this expression, Hume has not regarded it as superfluous to subject this...

...of theology, does little more than express the writer's contentment with the argument from design. " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent...regard to the primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.—(IV. p. 435.) " Were men led into the apprehension of invisible, intelligent power, by...

...intelligent Author," and that " no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief for a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion." And this " genuine theism " of Hume can be only that attenuated theism, which infers, from observed...

...intelligent Author," and that " no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief for a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion." And this " genuine theism " of Hume can be only that attenuated theism, which infers, from observed...

...intelligent Author," and that " no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief for a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion." And this " genuine theism " of Hume can be only that attenuated theism, which infers, from observed...

...most implicit faith in the argument from design. In the " Natural History of Religion," Hume says : " The whole frame of nature bespeaks an Intelligent...primary principles of genuine theism and religion. Were men led into apprehension of invisible, intelligent power by a contemplation of the works of nature,...

...intelligent Author," and that " no rational inquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief for a moment with regard to the primary principles of genuine theism and religion." Moreover, this "genuine theism," on Hume's premisses, is only the attenuated theism which infers, from...

...clearest solution. The whole frame of nature bespeaks an intelligent Author, and no rational enquirer can, after serious reflection, suspend his belief...primary principles of genuine Theism and Religion.' This is possibly more strongly phrased than Hume might at all times be willing to approve of ; but...