But of late years they have been revived, with the enlarged and benevolent design of promoting the happiness of the human species.
If it is true that the greatness cannot be separated from the aggression, then there is certainly no benevolent design in the universe, Doctor.
"Well, I'll do what I can," said Miss Ophelia; and she approached her new subject very much as a person might be supposed to approach a black spider, supposing them to have benevolent designs toward it.
In God's benevolent design, carnivores caused mercifully swift death, but the suffering caused by parasitism was a puzzling problem.
The version formulated in 1802 by the theologian William Paley used the watchmaker analogy to argue that complexity and adaptation in nature demonstrated God's benevolent and perfect design, for the good of humans.
This treated the world as a cosmos of benevolent design, and the laws of nature as the decrees of a 'Being transcendentally kind.'
Meanwhile, a young housecleaner (Clea DuVall) floats angelically through her days of menial work, convinced that her life is part of a benevolent and mysterious design.
He failed, however, in his benevolent design.
European Communists cultivate the comforting long view, the ability to see the bewildering twists and turns of history not as capricious riddles but as elements of a larger and ultimately benevolent design.
As a deist, he thought the mechanism allowed species to form varieties better adapted to particular conditions and was evidence of benevolent design in nature.
