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My last Lecture, gentlemen, was employed in considering the evidence, which the frame of nature exhibits, of the being of its Divine Author. Of this there appears to me to be only one argument which can produce conviction,—but that an argument so irresistible, as to correspond, in its influence on the mind, with the power of him whose existence it forces even the most reluctant to acknowledge. The arguments commonly termed meta- physical, on this subject, I have always regarded as absolutely void of force, unless in as far as they proceed on a tacit assumption of the physical argument ; and, indeed, it seems to me no small corroborative proof of the force of this physical argument, that its remaining impression on our mind has been sufficient to save us from any doubt, as to that existence, which the obscure and laborious reasonings a priori, in support of it, would have led us to doubt, rather than to believe. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)