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Theodicy: Essays On Divine Providence, Volume 2

Theodicy: Essays On Divine Providence, Volume 1 Theodicy: Essays On Divine Providence, Volume 2 [you are here] Volume 3 is in the Cornell Library at Internet Archive. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. BOOK THE THIRD. (Continued.) On the Law of the Least Means applied to the Government of Divine Providence. XII. The Problem which Essential Wisdom had to solve in order to trace out the mode of operation to be followed by Essential Goodness 3 XIII. The Principle to be followed in solving the Problem of the Wisdom that creates and governs the world 9 XIV. First Consequence: — When God can obtain a given quantity of good by the use of Created Entities and Activities, it is not fitting that He should obtain it by an extraordinary and immediate intervention of His Power 11 XV. Continuation. — Necessity of Secondary Causes 14 XVI. Second Consequence : — When God has by His Government obtained all the good He can obtain from all the Activities of His Creatures, it is in accordance with His Goodness that He should add His own immediate action, so as to produce in them and to derive from them that good which they, in whatever way governed, could not by themselves yield, maintaining, however, in the case

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