He stopped, took off his glasses and started to polish them. He cant see two feet in front of his nose without them, but he peered over toward where I was and added: She told me all this while we were sitting on the roof of the building my mother still lives in on Eighty-first and West End. No pigeons on this rooftop. Only ramparts and parapets, the hum of traffic far below, Annie telling me that despite what the world was led to believe by those pictures of the lone student bravely holding off a column of four tanks, what actually happened was that the tanks ran overanyone who stood in their path. She kept quiet. He repeated his identification and added:Its all right, honey. We won’t hurt you; we just want to talk to you. Now will you whisper and not make any noise? Dr. Tulloch (pp. 45-47) thinks it a sufficient answer to this, that Leibnitz and the Cartesians were Theists, and believed the will of God to be an efficient cause. Doubtless they did, and the Cartesians even believed (though Leibnitz did not) that it is the only such cause. Dr. Tulloch mistakes the nature of the question. I was not writing on Theism, as Dr. Tulloch is, but against a particular theory of causation, which, if it be unfounded, can give no effective support to Theism or to any thing else. I found it asserted that volition is the only efficient cause, on the ground that no other efficient cause is conceivable. To this assertion I oppose the instances of Leibnitz and of the Cartesians, who affirmed with equal positiveness that volition as an efficient cause is itself not conceivable, and that omnipotence, which renders all things conceivable, can alone take away the impossibility. This I thought, and think, a conclusive answer to the argument on which this theory of causation avowedly depends. But I certainly did not imagine that Theism was bound up with that theory; nor expected to be charged with denying Leibnitz and the Cartesians to be Theists because I denied that they held the theory. I... I cant remember. I didn’t notice if I did. No, Im fine. She sends me enough. Really. Im not. I thought you might like company for dinner, that’s all. Thought you might like to meet some genuine Maine types, she said, and grinned. Moose Wallington kicked the gun to one side, methodically pulled handcuffs from his belt. And learn how to socialize with others? Whos Dr. Tann...? Annie, Dr. Tannenbaum was our family doctor. We haven’t seen him in almost seven years! No. Its horrible,’ Cleo said. 128 My mother begins weeping. She takes a handkerchief from her bag, begins dabbing at her eyes. Dont look at her, my sister whispers. She’ll know. Acting with manifest reluctance, Staunton Irvine qualified him as an expert, then took the written list of questions which Rob Trenton handed him. All menare mortal—Universal. The distinction is real and important. But, as has been seen, an Attribute, when it is any thing but a simple unanalyzable Resemblance between the subject and some other things, consists in causing impressions of some sort on consciousness. Consequently, the co-inherence of two attributes is but the co-existence of the two states of consciousness implied in their meaning: with the difference, however, that this co-existence is sometimes potential only, the attribute being considered as in existence, though the fact on which it is grounded may not be actually, but only potentially present. Snow, for instance, is, with great convenience, said to be white even in a state of total darkness, because, though we are not now conscious of the color, we shall be conscious of it as soon as morning breaks. Co-inherence of attributes is therefore still a case, though a complex one, of co-existence of states of consciousness; a totally different thing, however, from Order in Place. Being a part of simultaneity, it belongs not to Place but to Time. Hes quite a guy..