Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
Baruch Spinoza
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
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As nature preserves a fixed and immutable order; it must clearly follow that miracles are only intelligible as a relation to human opinions, and merely mean events of which the natural cause cannot be explained by a reference to any ordinary occurren
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Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
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