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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“Many worlds might have been botched and bungled, throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out”

David Hume (spoken by Philo)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 5 (Project Gutenberg #4583)

Portrait of David Hume

Philo argues that even a well-made world might be the product of long trial and error rather than a single perfect designer.

Citation: "Many worlds might have been botched and bungled, throughout an eternity, ere this system was struck out" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 5 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q3)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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