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1 I say that we act when anything takes place, either within 2 us or externally to us, whereof we are the adequate cause; that 3 is (by the foregoing definition) when through our nature 4 something takes place within us or externally to us, which can 5 through our nature alone be clearly and distinctly understood. 6 On the other hand, I say that we are passive as regards something 7 when that something takes place within us, or follows from our 8 nature externally, we being only the partial cause. 9 10