[1106] II-iii-20, (pp. 994-95). Yet in another connection (I-i-46, pp. 625-26) William inconsistently makes the assertion that everything depends absolutely upon God’s will alone as an argument against employing magic images to gain one’s ends. He tells a story of a man who, when a magician offered to secure him some great dignity in his city, asked him if he could get it against God’s will. When the magician admitted that he could not, the man asked if he could prevent securing it if God willed it and the magician again answered “No.” The man then said that he would commit it all to God. William does not seem to see that this attitude is the same as that of ignorant persons who leave scientific investigation to God or of hungry people who expect God to feed them.
[1107] I-i-44, (p. 613).
[1108] I-i-42, (p. 608).
[1109] Ibid., (p. 606).
[1110] See I-iii-31, (p. 759). See also Valois, 304 and M. K. Werner, Wilhelms von Auvergne Verhältniss z. d. Platonikern des XII. Jhts, in Vienna Sitzb., vol. 74 (1873), p. 119 et seq.
[1111] See I-ii-30, (p. 694) for an expression of this view.
[1112] I-ii-31, (p. 695).
[1113] II-iii-23, (pp. 1003-4).
[1114] De legibus, Cap. 25, (p. 75).
[1115] I-ii-21, (p. 680): II-iii-7, (p. 973).