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BRIDGEWATER TREATISE.
A FRAGMENT.
BY
CHARLES B ABB AGE, ESQ.
" We may thus, with the greatest propriety, deny to the mechanical philosophers aud inathematiciaus of recent times any authority with regard to their views of the administration of the universe; we have no reason whatever to expect from their speculations any help, when we ascend to the lirst cause and supreme ruler of the universe. But we might perhaps go farther, and assert that they are in some respects less likely than men employed in other pursuits, to make any clear advance towards such a subject of speculation." — Briilyeivaler TreiUUe, by lUa
Rev. Wm. Whewell, p. 334.
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SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
MDCCCXXXVIII.
LONDON: n. CI.AY, PRINTKR, liUEAD-STUEET-llILL.
ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The following are the principal alterations in the
Second Edition: —
The Chapter on Hume's Argument against Miracles has been nearly re-written, and the Note in the
Appendix, to which it refers, has been so enlarged, as to meet all the interpretations which I have been able to suppose of that author's meaning.
The Chapter next following contains an examination of a difficulty which would naturally present itself to any one who had pursued the reasoning …