Second Causes Quotes
- As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the… — Hannah Hurnard
- Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion — Thomas Hobbes
- To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville
- I am a strong partisan of second causes, and I believe firmly that the entire gallinaceous order has been merely created to furnish our larders… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin