The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin.

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
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Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * V OFT II EWORLD. 7 * r But I think it will be readily granted me, that fome opinions are bed treated with con¬ tempt. When men obvioufly forfake the fimpled truths or nature, when they become bigotedly attached to a favourite fyftem, or to fome reign¬ ing fuperdition, what arguments can coun¬ teract their obdinacy ! what energy of truth or reafon bring home conviction ! To point out their abfurdities, but rivets them in their er¬ rors ferioufiy to confute them, is a fruitlefs labour. * The eternity of the world, of animated na¬ ture, and the extended fcenes of exifcence, I fhall then without farther ceremony endeavour to invedigate, From the obfcure lights of human tradi¬ tion,—and From an attentive examination of the vari¬ ous productions, which nature has preferred to our infpeCtion.
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