The Universe is One Great Machine

Look round the world, contemplate the whole and every part of it: you will find it to be nothing but one great machine, subdivided into an infinite number of lesser machines, which again admit of subdivisions to a degree beyond what human senses and faculties can trace and explain. All these various machines, and even their most minute parts, are adjusted to each other with an accuracy which ravishes into admiration all men who have ever contemplated them. The curious adapting of means to ends, throughout all nature, resembles exactly, though it much exceeds, the productions of human contrivance-of human design, thought, wisdom, and intelligence.

Notes:

Made up of smaller machines.

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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Hume , David (1779), Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Retrieved on 2012-06-05

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