human
and that any pretence to the contrary
gpt
; [105] his repeated objection to the discussion of Final Causes; [106] his attack on Plato and Aristotle for rejecting the atheistic scientific method of Democritus; [107] his peremptory assertion that motion is a property of matter; [108] and his almost Democritean handling of the final problem, in which he insists that primal matter is,
human
[109] Further, though he speaks of Scriptural miracles in a conventional way, [110] he drily pronounces in one passage that,
gpt
[111] Finally, as against the formal capitulation to theology at the close of the De Augmentis, he has left standing in the first book of the Latin version the ringing doctrine of the original Advancement of Learning (1605), that
human
; reminding us as they do that he
gpt
When, therefore, he announces that
human
that
gpt
[114] he has the air of juggling with his problem; and his further suggestion as to the possibility of matter being endowed with a force of evolution, however cautiously put, is far removed from orthodoxy. Accordingly, the charge of atheism--which he notes as commonly brought against all who dwell solely on second causes [115]--was actually cast at his memory in the next generation. [116] It was of course false: on the issue of theism he is continually descanting with quite conventional unction; as in the familiar essay on atheism. [117] His dismissal of final causes as