Excerpt from Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion: And an Essay on Faith
There is a principle in our nature which makes us dissatisfied with unexplained and unconnected facts; which leads us to theo rise all the particulars of our knowledge, or to form in our minds some system of causes sufficient to explain or produce the effects which we see; and which teaches us to believe or disbelieve in the truth of any system which may be presented to us, just as it appears adequate or inadequate to afford that explanation of which we are in pursuit. We have an intuitive perception that the appearances of Nature are connected by the relation of cause and effect and we have also an instinctive desire to classify and arrange the seemingly confused mass of facts with which we are surrounded, according to this.
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