[An impulse of the moment]

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806 [An impulse of the moment]

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GLC#
GLC02437.03641-View header record
Type
Documents
Date
21 August 1787
Author/Creator
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
Title
[An impulse of the moment]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 32.3 cm, Width: 20.6 cm
Primary time period
The New Nation, 1783-1815
Sub-Era
Creating a New Government

Title taken from docket. Knox's beliefs concerning spirituality. Writes "[t]he mind of an intelligent man is overpowered with the extent magnitude and effulgence of inanimate nature Infinitely diversified indeed but every part having an essential connection with & dependance [sic] on each other, from an atom up to a world a system, an association of systems untill [sic] stretching into creation the immensity of the scale becomes too [large?] to be embraced by the imagination ..." and that "Analogy Philosophy and Religion teach us that there is also a glorious system of intellectual beings - and although in this stage of our existence we cannot have and define the mode or connection of our spiritual with our corporeal being yet we know enough to induce us to reverence and adore the infinite power by whom we live more and have our being - " Second docket in another hand.

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