 For it became Him who created them to set them in order. And if He did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other origin of the world, or to pretend that it might arise out of a chaos by the mere laws of Nature; though being once formed, it may continue...  On natural theology - Page 226by Thomas Chalmers - 1840Full view - About this book
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