Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Religion
Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3)
Strong, Augustus Hopkins
Baptists -- Doctrines; Theology, Doctrinal
Bowne, Philos. Theism, 85—“Design is never causal. It is only
ideal, and it demands an efficient cause for its realization. If
ice is not to sink, and to freeze out life, there must be some
molecular structure which shall make its bulk greater than that of
an equal weight of water.” Jackson, Theodore Parker,
355—“Rudimentary organs are like the silent letters in many
words,—both are witnesses to a past history; and there is
intelligence in their preservation.” Diman, Theistic Argument:
“Not only do we observe in the world the change which is the basis
of the Cosmological Argument, but we perceive that this change
proceeds according to a fixed and invariable rule. In inorganic
nature, general order, or _regularity_; in organic nature, special
order or _adaptation_.” Bowne, Review of H. Spencer, 113-115,
224-230: “Inductive science proceeds upon the postulate that the
reasonable and the natural are one.” This furnished the guiding
clue to Harvey and Cuvier; see Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sciences,
2:489-491. Kant: “The anatomist must assume that nothing in man is
in vain.” Aristotle: “Nature makes nothing in vain.” On molecules
as manufactured articles, see Maxfield, in Nature, Sept. 25, 1873.
See also Tulloch, Theism, 116, 120; LeConte, Religion and Science,
lect. 2 and 3; McCosh, Typical Forms, 81, 420; Agassiz, Essay on
Classification, 9, 10; Bib. Sac., 1849:626 and 1850:613; Hopkins,
in Princeton Review, 1882:181.
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