...origin. What we think of as God's intention, however, is no more than a human projection on to nature. For that 'eternal and infinite being whom we call God, or Nature acts by the same necessity whereby it exists . . . just as it does not exist for an end so it does not act for an end' (Part IV,...

...For we have demonstrated in Appendix, Part 1 that Nature does not act with an end in view; that the eternal and infinite being, whom we call God, or Nature, acts by the same necessity whereby it exists. That the necessity of [his] nature whereby [he] acts is the same as that whereby...

...from true knowledge. For we have demonstrated that Nature does not act with an end in view; that the eternal and infinite being, whom we call God, or Nature, acts by the same necessity whereby it exists. That the necessity of his nature whereby he acts is the same as that whereby he...

...could have assumed on intelligibility. One key passage is in the Preface to Part IV of the Ethics: The eternal and infinite being whom we call God, or Nature, acts by the same necessity whereby it exists. That the necessity of his nature whereby he acts is the same as that whereby he...

..."Nature has set no end before herself, and [all] final causes are nothing but human fictions [..]. Nature does nothing for the sake of an end, for that eternal and infinite Being we call God or Nature acts by the same necessity by which He exists; for we have shown that He acts...

...declares] that nature does not act on account of an end. For that eternal and infinite being, which we call God or nature, acts by the same necessity by which it exists. For we have shown (in I.16) that he himself acts from the same necessity of nature from...