end-appointing

Updated: May 4, 2025

Now, theism, on its part, proceeds from the highest end-appointing cause of things and processes, and finds that the reaching of these ends postulates a mechanism of natural conformity to law.

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality

What else closed again at the precise place and moment the valves of the proceeding development, and brought to rest again the inciting force of the rising development? what else but the highest end-appointing intelligence and omnipotence?

Rudolf Schmid - The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality