Here, then, we have upon the throne of the universe a clear and unequivocal instance of a self-active power,—a power whose goings forth are not impelled by any power without itself.
Nor is it more difficult to conceive that man, in point of fact, possesses such a limited self-active power, than it is to conceive that God possesses an infinite self-active power.
The idea of positive efficiency, or active power, would never have entered into our minds.
Active power, therefore, is a quality in the cause, which enables it to produce the effect.
Active power is not contrary to act, but is founded upon it, for everything acts according as it is actual: but passive power is contrary to act; for a thing is passive according as it is potential.
It remains, therefore, that in God there is active power in the highest degree.
Thus from defect of active power in the seed it may happen that a child is born unlike its father in accidental points, that belong to its manner of being.
It is remarkable for first introducing the term notion, to signify idealess meaning, as in the words soul, active power, &c.
Active power is with him the essence of Mind, distinguishing me from the changing ideas of which I am percipient.
But yet, if we will consider it attentively, bodies, by our senses, do not afford us so clear and distinct an idea of active power, as we have from reflection on the operations of our minds.
Further, no habit is allotted to the active intellect, as there is to the "possible" intellect, because the former is an active power.
But the will is above all an active power, because it moves all the powers to their acts, as stated above (Q.
The object of the human action is not always the object of an active power.
Further, the object of an active power is compared to the action as effect to cause.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "active power" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
