“In good philosophy, the
word cause ought to be reserved to the single divine impulse that has formed the
universe.”
(Geison,
1995, 141-142)
“The atmosphere in which we
live swarms with the germs of those microscopic creatures, which are always ready to
multiply in dead matter wherever it presents itself, and thus to fulfill the mission of
destruction which is correlative to their life. And if God had not so arranged things
that, under normal conditions of life and health, the laws governing the changes in
tissues and fluids of animal’s bodies did not impede the proliferation of these
microscopic creatures, we should always be vulnerable to their inroads.”
