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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

PART 2
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Throw several pieces of steel together, without shape or form; they will never arrange themselves so as to compose a watch.

Stone, and mortar, and wood, without an architect, never erect a house.

But the ideas in a human mind, we see, by an unknown, inexplicable economy, arrange themselves so as to form the plan of a watch or house.
Experience, therefore, proves, that there is an original principle of order in mind, not in matter.

From similar effects we infer similar causes.

The adjustment of means to ends is alike in the universe, as in a machine of human contrivance.


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