The Bridgewater Treatises
on the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God,
As Manifested in the Creation.

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Treatise I.

THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE
TO THE MORAL AND INTELLECTUAL
CONSTITUTION OF MAN.

BY

THOMAS CHALMERS, D. D.

Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh


In Two Volumes

Volume II.


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LONDON

William Pickering

1835.


This electronic edition prepared by Dr. David C. Bossard
from original documents in his personal library.

April, 2006.

Copyright © 2006 by David C. Bossard.


CONTENTS.
PART I. (Cont.)

ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE MORAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.


VII. On those Special Affections which conduce to the Economic Wellbeing of Society,  7

 007  008  009  010  011  012  013  014  015  016  017  018  019  020  021  022  023  024  025  026  027  028  029  030  031  032  033  034  035  036  037  038  039  040  041  042  043  044  045  046  047  048  049  050  051  052  053  054  055  056

VIII. On the Relation in which the Special Affections of our Nature stand to Virtue; and on the Demonstration given forth by it, both to the Character of Man and the Character of God,  57

 057  058  059  060  061  062  063  064  065  066  067  068  069  070  071  072  073

IX. Miscellaneous Evidences of Virtuous and Benevolent Design, in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral Constitution of Man,  74

 074  075  076  077  078  079  080  081  082  083  084  085  086  087  088  089  090  091  092  093  094  095  096  097  098  099  100

X. On the Capacities of the World for making a Virtuous Species happy; and the Argument deducible from this, both for the Character of God and the Immortality of Man,  101

 101  102  103  104  105  106  107  108  109  110  111  112  113  114  115  116  117  118  119  120  121  122  123  124  125  126  127  128  129  130  131  132  133  134 


PART II.

ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE INTELLECTUAL CONSTITUTION OF MAN.


I. Chief instances of this Adaptation,  135

 135  136  137  138  139  140  141  142  143  144  145  146  147  148  149  150  151  152  153  154  155  156  157  158  159  160  161  162  163  164  165  166  167  168  169  170  171  172  173  174  175  176  177  178  179  180  181  182

II. On the Connection between the Intellect and the Emotions,  183

 183  184  185  186  187  188  189  190  191  192  193  194  195  196  197  198  199  200  201  202  203  204  205  206  207  208  209  210  211  212  213  214  215  216  217  218  219  220

III. On the Connection between the Intellect and the WiIl,  221

 221  222  223  224  225  226  227  228  229  230  231  232  233  234  235  236  237  238  239  240  241  242  243  244  245  246  247  248  249  250  251  252  253  254  255  256  257

IV. On the Defects and the Uses of Natural Theology,  258-302

 258  259  260  261  262  263  264  265  266  267  268  269  270  271  272  273  274  275  276  277  278  279  280  281  282  283  284  285  286  287  288  289  290  291  292  293  294  295  296  297  298  299  300  301  302

[258] Although there be much of truth, having that sort of immediate and resistless evidence which forces itself upon our convictions whether we will or not -- there is also much, and that too practically the most momentous, of which we can only attain the conviction and the knowledge by a lengthened, often a laborious, process of inquiry.

[260] [on Atheism] To be able to say that there is a God, we may only to look abroad on some definite territory, and point to the vestiges that are given of His power and His presence somewhere. To be able to say that there is no God, we must walk the whole expanse of infinity, and ascertain, by observation, that such vestiges are to be found nowhere.