It is usual for men, in such difficulties, to have recourse to some invisible intelligent principle as the immediate cause of that event which surprises them, and which, they think, cannot be accounted for from the common powers of nature.
Normala da gizakumeak, halako zailtasunetan, adimendun printzipio ikuskaitzen batera jotzea, harrigarri zaien eta euren ustez naturaren ahal arruntez azaldu ezin den gertaeraren arartegabeko kausatzat.