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On a Neglected Argument for the Reality of GOD.

The first proposition of Natural Theology: what single other subject has been worn so threadbare! Moreover, whoever, from prelate to plough-boy, has deeply pondered the matter is, I suppose, familiar with the chain of thought which this paper which this paper is to consider, and which it will be convenient to designate as "the neglected argument." Indeed, meaning by "God," as throughout this paper will be meant, the Being whose Attributes are, in the main, those usually ascribed to Him, Omniscience, Omnipotence, Infinite Benignity, a Being not "immanent in" the Universes of Matter, Mind, and Ideas,