Date: 1726, 1729
"Let us Instance in a Watch--Suppose the several Parts of it taken to Pieces, and placed apart from each other: Let a Man have ever so exact a Notion of these several Parts, unless he considers the Respects and Relations which they have to each other, he will not have any thing like the Idea of a...
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Date: 1726, 1729
"But there is a superior Principle of Reflection or Conscience in every Man, which distinguisheth between the internal Principles of his Heart, as well as his external Actions: Which passes Judgment upon himself and them; pronounces determinately some Actions to be in themselves just, right, good...
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