...was saturated with teleology. " The endless beautiful adaptations which we everywhere meet with, J the extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility, of...universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity," * the fact that " the...

...truly said that I am like a man who has become colour blind. . . . Another source of conviction is the existence of God connected with the reason and not with the feelings. This follows from the extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility, of conceiving this immense and wonderful...

...together certain expressions from his writings which will serve to make clear our meaning: " Another sort of conviction in the existence of God, connected with...immense and wonderful universe, including man, with his wonderful capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or...

...thinker confesses that there is a " source of conviction in the existence of God " in what he terms "the extreme difficulty, or rather impossibility,...universe, including man with his capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I...

...the argument drawn from reason was more cogent with his mind. He could not bring himself to regard "this immense and wonderful universe, including man,...backwards and far into futurity, as the result of * P. 307. t P. 307. t P. 307, "For myself," etc. P. 308, " But I had gradually," down to "had some...

...phenomena of consciousness emerge, and then it breaks down.— IVERACH. Another source of the conviction of the existence of God, connected with the reason, and...difficulty, or rather, impossibility, of conceiving the immense and wonderful universe, including man, with his capacity of looking far backward and far...

...same source covering this point is of singular interest, and may be profitably pondered : Another sort of conviction in the existence of God, connected with...immense and wonderful universe, including man, with his wonderful capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or...

...difficulty against the argument of a First Cause. He thus expresses it in his autobiography : 44 " Another source of conviction in the existence of God,...universe, including man, with his capacity of looking far forwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I...

...admit the immortality of the human soul, the destruction of our world will not appear so dreadful. Another source of conviction in the existence of God,...universe, including man, with his capacity of looking far backward and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting I...

...annihilation after such long-continued slow progress," and the full acceptance of theism, despite " the extreme difficulty or rather impossibility of...conceiving this immense and wonderful universe, including in it his [man's] capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance...