| Aristotle, Thomas Taylor - First philosophy - 1801 - 482 pages
...corruptible. But if the caufe of the univerfe operated from reafoning and inquiry in producing the world, his energy could not be fpontaneous and truly his...procures them as fomething adventitious by learning and inquiry. Hence we infer that the world is eternal, and that its maker produced it by his very eflence... | |
| Maximus (of Tyre) - 1804 - 562 pages
...the world his energy could not be spontaneous and truly his own ; but his essence would be similar to that of the artificer, who does not derive his productions from himself but procures them as something adventitious * This is demonstrated by Proclus in his Elements... | |
| 1847 - 796 pages
...the world, his energy could not be spontaneous and truly his own ; but his essence would be similar to that of the artificer, who does not derive his productions from himself, but procures them as something adventitious by learning and inquiry If, therefore, there is... | |
| Thomas Moore Johnson - Platonists - 1908 - 96 pages
...by enquiry, his energy could not be spontaneous, and truly his own; but his essence would be similar to that of the artificer, who does not derive his productions from himself, but procures them as something adventitious, by learning and enquiry. But if the universe... | |
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