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“Especially must we find a substitute for creation by fiat, or efficient causation. For no being that arises out of efficient causation can possibly be free”

— George Holmes Howison The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905)

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“The infinite of the soul is mightier than the finite in it.”

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“Throughout Nature, as distinguished from idealising mind, there reigns, in fine, no causation but transmission.”

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“Concomitance simply means, at last, that both series of changes are connected with some cause, distinct from either, which is the secret of both.”

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“By their very ideality they conclusively refer themselves to our spontaneous life: nothing ideal can be derived from experience, just as nothing experimental is ever ideal.”

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