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Quotation from A Theologico-Political Treatise by Baruch Spinoza

“That nature cannot be contravened, but that she preserves a fixed and immutable order”

Baruch Spinoza

A Theologico-Political Treatise, Chapter VI, Of Miracles, trans. R. H. M. Elwes

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The first of the propositions Spinoza sets out to demonstrate about nature and miracles.

Citation: "That nature cannot be contravened, but that she preserves a fixed and immutable order" — Baruch Spinoza, A Theologico-Political Treatise, Chapter VI, Of Miracles, trans. R. H. M. Elwes. (id spinoza-theologico-political-treatise-q2)

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