4. "An atheist must believe he was introduced into the world without design."
ABSURDITIES.
1. "A general mass of sensation consisting of various elements borrowed from the past and the future."
2. "Since sensation is made up of past, present, and future, the infant feeling for the moment only, the man recollecting what is past and anticipating the future, and as the present sensation must therefore in time bear a less proportion to the general mass of sensation than it did, so at last all temporary affections, whether of pain or pleasure become wholly inconsiderable."
3. "The great book of nature and the book of revelation both lie open before us."
4. "A conclusion above our comprehension."
5. "A whole eternity already past."
6. "Since a finite Being cannot be infinitely happy, because he must then be infinite in knowledge and power; and as all limitation of happiness must consist in degree of happiness or mixture of misery, the Deity can alone determine which mode of limitation is best."
7. "We have reason to be thankful for our pains and distress."
8. "If the divine Being had made man at first as happy as he can be after all the feelings and ideas of a painful and laborious life, it must have been in violation of all general laws and by a constant and momentary interference of the Deity."