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When I wrote my treatise about our system I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
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- When I wrote my treatise about our system
- I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity;
- and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose..
- author: Isaac Newton
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- Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.
- author: Isaac Newton
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- Isaac Newton, Original letter from Isaac Newton to Richard Bentley, 189.R.4.47, ff. 4A-5, Trinity College Library, Cambridge, UK; found on the Newton Project website: http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THEM00254; spelling and punctuation modernized.
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This Being governs all things, not as the soul of the world, but as Lord over all. . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a living, intelligent, and powerful Being. . . . He is not eternity and infinity, but eternal and infinite; he is not duration or space, but he endures and is present.
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- This Being governs all things,
- not as the soul of the world,
- but as Lord over all.
- . . . The Supreme God is a Being eternal, infinite, absolutely perfect
- . . . and from his true dominion it follows that the true God is a
- living,
- intelligent, and
- powerful Being.
- . . . He is not
- eternity and
- infinity, -but
- eternal and
- infinite;
- he is not
- duration or
- space,
- but he
- endures and
- is present.
- This Being governs all things,
- author: Isaac Newton
- reference
- Isaac Newton, Principia, ed. Stephen Hawking (Philadelphia: Running Press, 2002), 426–27.
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Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space . . . sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly.
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- Does it not appear from phenomena
- that there is a Being
- incorporeal,
- living,
- intelligent,
- omnipresent,
- who in infinite space
- sees the things themselves intimately, and
- thoroughly perceives them, and
- comprehends them wholly.
- author: Isaac Newton
- reference
- Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.
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Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? . . . Was the eye contrived without skill in optics? And the ear without knowledge of sounds?
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- Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain?
- And whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world?
- Was the eye contrived without skill in optics?
- And the ear without knowledge of sounds?
- author: Isaac Newton
- reference
- Isaac Newton, Opticks, 4th ed. (London: William Innys, 1730), 344; spelling and punctuation modernized.
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