Blind particle-toss cannot build the human body — or the universe
No sober mind credits ordered universe-harmony to undirected particle-toss.
Even one human body — organs apt for many uses — bars that cause.
Blind matter-jactation cannot build this fabric.
Latin
XLI. His adde, quod in mentem hominis cadere non potest, corpuscula quaedam varie jactata, absque ullo proposito fine, & absque ullo motore dirigente, potuisse componere tam mirabilem universi structuram, ubi tantus ordo, tanta sapientia, tanta partium omnium consensio & harmonia, quae per tot saecula constans & invariabilis manet, a quovis non omnino caeco animo animadverti potest. Imo si solum hominis corpus consideremus, non puto ullum esse tam stupidum, aut furiosum, qui sibi ipsi persuadere possit, tam mirandam fabricam, in qua tot organa numerari possunt, tam artificiose & concinne fabrefacta, tam apte disposita, ad usus tam varios & multiplices inservientia, fabricam, inquam, hujusmodi non aliam habere causam, quam caecam particularum materiae jactationem.
About this text
Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu, Sedan Theses, newly rendered from Latin: from theology proper through the Roman theses I–77 and the Reformed theses of Part Two. The theses only — not the collected works.
English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).
Catalogue & scope
ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive PDF of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Checked print pdftotext of De Theologia pages (Latin)
- Checked print Internet Archive DjVu OCR of the 1675 Pitt folio (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
- Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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