 But More is adamant that the Spirit of Nature is a “Secondary or Emanatory Substance” (More 1662, Immortality of the Soul, separately paginated, 28), and should correctly be seen as a secondary cause. Responding to the charge that he has “introduced an obscure Principle for ignorance and Sloth to take sanctuary in… and hinder that expected progress that may be made in the Mechanick Philosophy” (More 1662, Immortality of the Soul, separately paginated, 11), More insisted that the Spirit of Nature was a help, not a hindrance. Speaking of this instrument of the “Vicarious Power of God”, he wrote: