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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“You will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines”

David Hume (spoken by Cleanthes)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 2 (Project Gutenberg #4583)

Portrait of David Hume

Cleanthes's statement of the design argument from the adaptation of means to ends.

Citation: "You will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 2 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q2)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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