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Page 73
... succession of cause and effect , properly so called , from an ordinary sequence , or from the accidental simul- taneousness of two otherwise unconnected events . The falling of the spark , they say , is the cause of the explosion ...
... succession of cause and effect , properly so called , from an ordinary sequence , or from the accidental simul- taneousness of two otherwise unconnected events . The falling of the spark , they say , is the cause of the explosion ...
Page 74
... succession . Recollecting other instances , or learning them from the testimony of others , I may have reason to believe , that these two events have always taken place together , or that the one has never occurred without being ...
... succession . Recollecting other instances , or learning them from the testimony of others , I may have reason to believe , that these two events have always taken place together , or that the one has never occurred without being ...
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... succession of beings , and not at any one link in that succession , in the world of mind we have irrefragable evidence , at every step , which leads us up from the created directly to the Creator . This evidence appears in the essential ...
... succession of beings , and not at any one link in that succession , in the world of mind we have irrefragable evidence , at every step , which leads us up from the created directly to the Creator . This evidence appears in the essential ...
Contents
THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND METAPHYSICAL | 1 |
THIS DISTINCTION APPLIED TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY | 25 |
CHAPTER VIII | 173 |
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