Subordinate powers

Meaning

Subalternes names powers subordinate within a common substance, whose operations can differ in degree, plus ou moins. Such differences do not by themselves prove distinct essential substances. The surrounding discussion of contrary effects insists on the relevant recipient and occasion: a thing is not to be said to nourish and kill the same subject at the same time. Nor does Nuysement deny that contraries can coexist; he argues that their conjunction can obstruct or damage action. These relational limits are what the language of subordinate powers helps preserve. The surrounding sentence’s unusual un mesme effect is retained as “one and the same effect” in the supplied translation, not silently corrected to “cause.”