The teleological and the mechanical views of nature are not, necessarily, mutually exclusive. On the contrary, the more purely a mechanist the speculator is, the more firmly does he assume a primordial molecular arrangement of which all the phenomena... Proceedings - Page 151by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1882Full view - About this book
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