 That there should be more species of intelligent creatures above us, than there are of sensible and material below us, is probable to me from hence, that in all the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms or no gaps. All quite down from us, the descent...  An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ... - Page 66by Joseph Warton - 1806Full view - About this book
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 426 pages
...himself and inferior to the supreme God, is a presumptive argument in favor of their existence." Locke: " That there should be more species of Intelligent creatures...probable to me from hence, that in all the visible und corporeal world we see no chasms and gaps.'* Foster, Christian Life and Theology, 193 — " A man... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1907 - 1218 pages
...inferi"r to the supreme God, is a presumptive argument In favor of their existence." Locke: "That t here should be more species of intelligent creatures above us than there are uf sensible and material l»elow us, is probable to me from hence, that in all the visibl»1 and corporeal... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 pages
...by which the world advances before a creature is found complete in all its senses, and having noted that "in all the visible corporeal world we see no chasms or no gaps", raised the question whether there may not be species of intellectual beings connecting us... | |
 | John Locke - 1924 - 438 pages
...sensible things are distinguished one from another by qualities which we know and observe in them. That there should be more species of intelligent creatures...the visible corporeal world, we see no chasms, or gaps.1 All quite down from us the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series of things, that... | |
 | Frank Wilbur Collier - 1928 - 364 pages
...than between man and the lowest insect.78 Then he quotes from Mr. Locke, with approval, the following: That there should be more species of intelligent creatures above us than there are sensible and material below us is probable, from hence, that in all the visible and corporeal world,... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - 1936 - 404 pages
...was not less explicit, though he was less exuberant, than Leibniz in repeating the ancient theses: In all the visible corporeal world we see no chasms...the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series that in each remove differ very little one from the other. There are fishes that have wings and are... | |
 | John W. Yolton - 1970 - 260 pages
...likely also be small and gradual; but 3.6.12 (as also less explicitly, 4.16.12) does say that the notion that 'there should be more species of intelligent...visible corporeal world we see no chasms or gaps'. Just why this fact about the visible corporeal world lends probability to a claim about a further incorporeal... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 292 pages
...of the Great Chain of Being is described by John Locke in his Essay concerning Human Understanding: In all the visible corporeal world we see no chasms...the descent is by easy steps, and a continued series that in each remove differ very little one from the other. There are fishes that have wings and are... | |
 | G. W. Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz - 1982 - 316 pages
...will be at least as much variety among thinking creatures. From us right down to the lowest things, the descent is by easy steps and a continued series of things which in each remove differ very little one from the other. There are some brutes that seem to have... | |
 | Robert E. Butts - 1986 - 386 pages
...realization of which was the chief object of God in creating the world. Locke had already written: "That there should be more species of intelligent...material below us, is probable to me from hence: that in the visible world, we see no chasms or gaps" (Locke 1959, Vol. I, Bk. Ill, Ch. VI, Para. 12, p. 67),... | |
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