The true intellectual system of the universe: the first part; wherein all reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted. And its impossibility demonstrated / By R. Cudworth.

  • Ralph Cudworth
Date:
1678
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Credit: The true intellectual system of the universe: the first part; wherein all reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted. And its impossibility demonstrated / By R. Cudworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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