Quote: blind necessity could produce no variety of things; diversity is due to the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing

Quotation

Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and everywhere, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being necessarily existing.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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