Volume 7, Number 9 · December 1, 1966
Not Very Well, Thank You
By Aubrey Lewis
Man Adapting
by René Dubos
Yale, 527 pp., $10.00
In the eighteenth century there was lively interest in Natural Theology: The essential arguments were brilliantly stated by David Hume in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Thirty years later came Paley's Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity Collected from the Appearances of Nature. Its success was very likely responsible for the endowed Lectures which ensued—the Gifford, Lectures, 'for Promoting, Advancing, Teaching, and Diffusing the Study of Natural Theology'; the Bridgewater Treatises 'on the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God, as manifested in the Creation'; the Silliman Lectures 'designed to illustrate the presence and providence of God as manifested in the natural and moral world'; and others.
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