 | Timothy A. Robinson - Philosophy - 2002 - 452 pages
...metallic nature. It is a perversion of language to assign any law as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent, for it is...mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power,... | |
 | Hans Schwarz - Religion - 2005 - 624 pages
...not happen by themselves, and they always occur in orderly form. This arrangement, expressed in laws, "presupposes an agent; for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power, for it is the order according to which the power acts. Without this agent, without this power,... | |
 | Ole Peter Grell, Dr. Andrew Cunningham - Medical - 2007 - 286 pages
...law-like regularity. As the reviewer of Paley's Natural Theology for the Edinburgh Review wrote in 1 803, 'A law presupposes an agent, for it is only the mode according to which an agent proceeds; and mechanism can produce nothing, unless their [sic] be a power to whose operations it is subservient.'45... | |
 | John Martin Creed, J. S. Boys Smith - Church and state - 1934 - 352 pages
...metallic nature. It is a perversion of language to assign any law, as the efficient, operative cause of any thing. A law presupposes an agent; for it is...mode, according to which an agent proceeds: it implies a power; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this... | |
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A law presupposes an agent ; for it is only the mode, according to which an agent proceeds : it implies a power ; for it is the order, according to which that power acts. Without this agent, without this power, which are both distinct from itself, the... 
