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a a made it clear - seem able or willing to see that the Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active .
a a made it clear - seem able or willing to see that the Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active .
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They are contingent because God has willed them to be so , and with this object has subjected them to causes which ... God is the first cause , and acts in all secondary causes directly ; but while He acts mechanically on the rest of ...
They are contingent because God has willed them to be so , and with this object has subjected them to causes which ... God is the first cause , and acts in all secondary causes directly ; but while He acts mechanically on the rest of ...
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It is , however , very ancient : that there is no effect without a cause , and that often the smallest cause produces the greatest effects , is not a recent idea . Lord Bolingbroke avows that the little quarrels of Madame Marlborough ...
It is , however , very ancient : that there is no effect without a cause , and that often the smallest cause produces the greatest effects , is not a recent idea . Lord Bolingbroke avows that the little quarrels of Madame Marlborough ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 580 pages |
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