Analogy was Paley's alpha, it must be made also his omega."[279] In pursuing this course, he makes large concessions, such as might seem at first sight to involve the very principles on which the Theistic proof depends.

"That design implies a designer, I am disposed to allow; and that this designer must be a person, I am quite inclined to admit.

Thus far goes Paley, and thus far I go with him....

His general position, that design proves a personal designer, is so _natural_, so _easy_, and so _plausible_, that it invites one to admit it, to see where it will lead, and what it will prove."-- "Paley tells us that God is a person.

He insists upon it as a legitimate inference from his premises, nor _would it be easy to disturb his conclusion_....