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

  • George Hoggart Toulmin
Date:
1785
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The eternity of the world / By G.H. Toulmin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    34/162 page 8
    And after having dwelt upon the facls eftablifhing the remote exigence of the world, and the objedls which compofe it, and which naturally lead us to conclude, that all things are eternal, v/e fhall ultimately, and from ab- ftradted rcalonings, endeavour ftill more for- cibly to point out the eternity of men, ani¬ mals, vegetables, earths, (tones, minerals, the world, and the whole of nature ! In this divifion of our fubjedl, it feems ne- cefiary to direct our fir ft attention to the fleet¬ ing traditions, the teftimony of the human fpecies. Let us then enquire into the manner of receiving fuch teftimony, cr fuch traditions, from diftant ages. The arts of all others unqueftionably themoft important, thofe of regiftering ideas through the medium of literary characters, and thus conveying interefting fadls to pofterity, would feem, from imperfedt and fuperficial obferva- tions, to have had their fir ft exiftence in the eaft. Yet the reafonings throughout this en- quiry will naturally induce us to refuse our alfent to this determination. At all events, it
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3