All Forces That Reside In The Body

Actions Are Divided As Regards Their Object Into Four Classes; They Are Either Purposeless , Unimportant , Or Vain , Or Good .

First Theory . There Is No Providence At All For Anything In The Universe; All Parts Of The Universe, The Heavens And What They Contain, Owe Their Origin To Accident And Chance; There Exists No Being That Rules And Governs Them Or Provides For Them. This Is The Theory Of Epicurus.

In The Beginning We Must Simplify The Subject, Thus Unavoidably Falsifying It, And Later We Must Sophisticate Away The Falsely Simple Beginning.

You Will See The Mercy Of God Toward His Creatures, How He Has Provided That Which Is Required, In Proper Proportions, And Treated All Individual Beings Of The Same Species With Perfect Equality. ...for It Is An Act Of Great And Perfect Goodness That He Gave Us Existence; And The Creation Of The Controlling Faculty In Animals Is A Proof Of His Mercy Towards Them, As Has Been Shown By Us.

Now I Wonder What Our Knowledge Has In Common With God's Knowledge According To Those Who Treat God's Knowledge... Is There Anything Else Common To Both Besides The Mere Name? ...there Is An Essential Distinction Between His Knowledge And Ours, Like The Distinction Between The Substance Of The Heavens And That Of The Earth.