Note 1 — Chapter XX · THE CONTRADICTION IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.
George Eliot translation
At the same time, however, their result is to prove the nature of man. The various proofs of the existence of God are nothing else than various highly interesting forms in which the human nature affirms itself. Thus, for example, the physico-theological proof (or proof from design) is the self-affirmation of the calculated activity of the understanding. Every philosophic system is, in this sense, a proof of the existence of God. ↑