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Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.Thomas Reid
The laws of nature are the rules according to which the effects are produced but there must be a cause which operates according to these rules.
Thomas Reid
If we could obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation till it grows up to the use of reason, how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opin-ions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection, this would be a trea-sure of natural history which would probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems of philosophers about them from the beginning of the world.
Thomas Reid
But I have never seen any proof that there are such laws of nature, far less any proof that the strongest motive always prevails.
Thomas Reid
It follows also, that the active power, of which only we can have any distinct conception, can be only in beings that have understanding and will.
Thomas Reid
In the strict and proper sense, I take an efficient cause to be a being who had power to produce the effect, and exerted that power for that purpose.
Thomas Reid
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