There remains a third source from which we arrive at the knowledge of the existence of a supreme Creator, namely, from an examination of his works. Unlike transmitted testimony, which is weakened at every stage, this evidence derives confirmation from the progress of the individual as well as from the advancement of the knowledge of the race.
Almost all thinking men who have studied the laws which govern the animate and the inanimate world around us, agree that the belief in the existence of one Supreme Creator, possessed of infinite wisdom and power, is open to far less difficulties than the supposition of the absence of any cause, or of the existence of a plurality of causes.


"Passages from the life of a philosopher", The Belief In The Creator From His Works, p. 400-401 - Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864)

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There remains a third source from which we arrive at the knowledge of the existence of a supreme Creator, namely, from an examination of his works....

There remains a third source from which we arrive at the knowledge of the existence of a supreme Creator, namely, from an examination of his works....

There remains a third source from which we arrive at the knowledge of the existence of a supreme Creator, namely, from an examination of his works....

There remains a third source from which we arrive at the knowledge of the existence of a supreme Creator, namely, from an examination of his works....