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Charles Sanders Peirce on Creation

Charles Sanders Peirce

Charles Sanders Peirce

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The purpose of creation as it must appear to us in our highest approaches to an understanding of it . . . is God’s movement toward self-reproduction.

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The Nature of Science, Classical American Philosophy, pages 46-48, John J. Stuhr, ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

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