Assertion: god | /r/CapableOf | set event
Facets:
value: by the free agency of man
type: OTHER
value: aside
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Like some other deists, Franklin believed that, "The Deity sometimes interferes by his particular Providence, and sets aside the Events which would otherwise have been produc'd in the Course of Nature, or by the Free Agency of Man," and stated at the Constitutional Convention that "the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth— that God governs in the affairs of men.