There Are More Sure Marks Of Authenticity

The Instinct Of Brutes And Insects Can Be The Effect Of Nothing Else Than The Wisdom And Skill Of A Powerful Ever-living Agent.

How Came The Bodies Of Animals To Be Contrived With So Much Art, And For What Ends Were Their Several Parts? Was The Eye Contrived Without Skill In Opticks, And The Ear Without Knowledge Of Sounds?...and These Things Being Rightly Dispatch’d, Does It Not Appear From Phænomena That There Is A Being Incorporeal, Living, Intelligent...?

This Principle Of Nature Being Very Remote From The Conceptions Of Philosophers, I Forbore To Describe It In That Book, Least I Should Be Accounted An Extravagant Freak And So Prejudice My Readers Against All Those Things Which Were The Main Designe Of The Book.

I Know Not How I Seem To Others, But To Myself I Am But A Small Child Wandering Upon The Vast Shores Of Knowledge, Every Now And Then Finding A Small Bright Pebble To Content Myself With While The Vast Ocean Of Undiscovered Truth Lay Before Me.

This Thing Is But A Puny Imitation Of A Much Grander System Whose Laws You Know, And I Am Not Able To Convince You That This Mere Toy Is Without A Designer Or Maker; Yet You Profess To Believe That The Great Original From Which The Design Is Taken Has Come Into Being Without Either Designer Or Maker! Now Tell Me By What Sort Of Reasoning Do You Reach Such An Incongruous Conclusion?