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Author Hale, Matthew, 1609-1676.

Title The primitive origination of mankind considered and examined according to the light of nature / written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale ...

Publication Info. London : Printed by William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery ..., 1677.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Internet  WORLD WIDE WEB E-BOOK EBSCO    Downloadable
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Description 1 online resource (11 unnumbered pages, 380 pages) : portrait
Series Early English books online.
Note Reproduction of original from Beinecke Library, Yale University.
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 02195.1-1.
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Summary "This text explores mankind's origins, as considered and examined in light of nature, with particular emphasis on the following parts and assertions: I. That according to the light of nature and natural reason, the visible world was not eternal, but had a beginning; II. That if there could be any imaginable doubt thereof, yet by the necessary evidence of natural light it does appear that mankind had a beginning, and that the successive generations of men were in their original form; III. That this truth is evident by demonstrative reason and arguments; IV. That there are moral evidences of the truth of this assertion, which are herein particularly expanded and examined; V. That those great philosophers that asserted this origination of mankind, both ancient and modern, that rendered it by hypothesis different from that of Moses, were mistaken--here the hypotheses of Aristotle, Plato, and others are examined, and the absurdity and impossibility of their theories are detected; VI. That the current author's theory explaining the creation of man and of the world, in general, abstractly considered without relation to the divine inspiration of the writer, is according to reason, and preferable to the sentiments of other philosophers; and VII. That the author has concluded the whole of this work with certain corollaries and deductions, necessarily flowing from the things thus asserted, as well touching the existence, the wisdom, power, and providence of Almighty God, as touching both the duty and happiness of mankind"--Foreword. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved).
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Human beings -- Origin -- Early works to 1800.
Spontaneous generation -- Early works to 1800.
Human beings -- Origin. (OCoLC)fst00962855
Spontaneous generation. (OCoLC)fst01130368
Humans. (DNLM)D006801
Nature. (DNLM)D019368
Genre/Form Early works. (OCoLC)fst01411636
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1677.
Other Form: Microform (OCoLC)20889428
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