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INADMISSIBLE OR INCONCLUSIVE.
1. "The question of the existence of a Deity is important."
2. "A Theist has a higher sense of personal dignity than an
atheist."
3. "The conduct of an atheist must give concern to those who are not
so."
4. "An atheist believes himself to be, at his death, for ever
excluded from returning life."
5. "There are more atheists than unbelievers in revelation."
6. "Men of letters may have the same bias to incredulity as others
to credulity, because they are subject to a wrong association of
ideas, as well as other persons though in a less degree."
7. "Whoever first made a thing, for example a chair or a table, must
have had an adequate idea of it's nature and use."
8. "If a table had a designing cause, the tree from whence the wood
came, and the man who made the table must have had a designing
cause, which comprehended all the powers and properties of trees and
men."
9. "All the visible universe, as far as we can judge, bears the
marks of being one work, and therefore must have had a cause of
infinite power and intelligence."
10. "We might as well say a table had no cause, as that the world
had none."
11. "A Being originally and necessarily capable of comprehending
itself, it is not improper to call infinite, for we can have no idea
of any bounds to it's knowledge or power.
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