Famous quotes containing the words special and/or modes:
“Navarette, a Chinese missionary, agrees with Leibniz and says that “It is the special providence of God that the Chinese did not know what was done in Christendom; for if they did, there would be never a man among them, but would spit in our faces.””
—Matthew Tindal (1653–1733)
“Sight and all the other senses are only modes of touch.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)