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Quotation from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume

“The world plainly resembles more an animal or a vegetable, than it does a watch or a knitting-loom”

David Hume (spoken by Philo)

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 7 (Project Gutenberg #4583)

Portrait of David Hume

Philo proposes that generation or vegetation is as good an analogy for the world's origin as design.

Citation: "The world plainly resembles more an animal or a vegetable, than it does a watch or a knitting-loom" — David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part 7 (Project Gutenberg #4583). (id dialogues-concerning-natural-religion-q4)

Portrait: David Hume, Allan Ramsay, Public domain.

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