| But in the second half of the century both neoplatonists and mechanists usually promoted more practical projects. |
| The economic spirit of a people cannot be manipulated in as simple-minded a fashion as the Keynesian mechanists imagine. |
| But the vice of blindness which the creationists attributed to Ransom's mechanists, I would argue, was not theirs alone. |
| It was as alien to the Greeks as it was commonplace to the mechanists that one should seek to interfere with nature. |
