I think I can prove the existence of a Deity--a First Cause.
Was not this then a cause; was it not a first cause?
Through that act he is immanent as first cause in all creatures and in every act of every creature.
They are as dependent collectively as individually, and therefore can exist and act only as second cause, never as first cause.
In contrast with this Uncreated, First Cause, all the other causes we have now to investigate are called created or second causes (causae secundae, creatae).
Moreover, all created causes may be called instrumental in relation to the First Cause.
Such would find a first cause short of the Creator, the great original of all things and actions; and thus violate the soundest principles of philosophy.
The Agnostic has given up the hope of ascertaining the nature of the "First Cause"--the hope of ascertaining whether or not there was a "First Cause.
He knows nothing of another world, and knows just as little of a First Cause.
It is an a priori judgment that everything which exists must have a cause, and that all finite causes, receive their causality from a first causeor causa causarum.
If we reflect the causative or creative principle, whatever we logically explicate from it is indubitably true, because in conformity with the idea of first cause.
The idea of God is first affirmed, and the due explication of the facts of the universe is then demonstrated to be only an explication of the idea of God as first cause.
I will endeavor to make what materialists mean by the impossibility of a first cause or last effect clear to "Rationalist.
It was regarded by them as obvious that there must have been a First Cause, a great Architect and Maker of the Universe.
He allowed that we are obliged to refer the phenomenal world and its law and order to a First Cause.
And the conclusion at which we have arrived may be concisely expressed by saying, that before all natural causes which acted necessarily, there was a First Cause which acted voluntarily.
But it is scarcely necessary, as everyone now admits that the universe (as the word implies) is one whole, and this plainly points to a Single First Cause.
It may be said that the human mind is unable to argue about the First Cause, because we have no faculties for comprehending the Infinite; or, as it is commonly expressed, because God is Unknowable.
These two First Causes, into which it was held that the great Universal First Cause at the beginning of things divided itself, were the two great Divinities, whose worship was, according to Varro, inculcated upon the Initiates at Samothrace.
The Existence of a First Cause--An Uncaused Cause Sec.
The Existence of a First Cause--An Uncaused Cause.
It is enough for him that he feels sure that there must be some object in our existence, and that there must be a First Cause.
As little, however, can the laws of nature discredit faith in a first cause, which springs from a region at once beneath, above, and beyond phenomena.
We are not warranted in saying that because we cannot think out an endless regress of infinite antecedents, therefore we must assume a first cause.
The only valid inference from the phenomena of design would be that of a phenomenal first cause.
The notion of first cause, however crude and rudimentary its form, is organic.
Then we must "inevitably commit ourselves to the hypothesis of a First Cause.
From which it follows that each individual mind requires to be regarded--if it is regarded at all--as of the nature of a first cause.
For if Cause is but another name for Will--whether the Will be subjective or ejective--it follows that my will is a first cause, which is determined by other causes only in so far as the executive capacity of my body is so determined.
Therefore, if this conception necessarily involves the postulation of a first cause, there can be no doubt that such a cause can only be conceived as of the nature of mind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "first cause" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
