...an idea which he says is "of first rate importance," taken from Bk. Ill, ch. v, <§>5. " But *'/ is necessary to our using the word cause, that we should...constitution of things endures, it always will be so." Necessary that we should believe! Why, this is the precise style of philosophising that Mr. Mill professedly...

...since these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that we should...been followed by the consequent, but that, as long u the present constitution of things endures, it always will be so. And this would not be true of day...

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...since^these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that we should...antecedent always has been followed by the consequent, tiut that, as long as the present constitution of things endures, it always will be so. And this would...

...since these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that we should...so, and this would not be true of day and night." The concession forced upon Mr Mill, and expressed in this passage is, we cannot help thinking, remarkable....

...since these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that we should...so, and this would not be true of day and night." The concession forced upon Mr Mill, and expressed in this passage is, we cannot help thinking, remarkable....

...visible object. But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that the antecedent not only ha-s always been followed by the consequent, but that, as long...constitution of things endures, it always will be so. Night is not a cause, nor even a condition of day. We may define, therefore, the cause of a phenomenon...

...since these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word cause, that we should believe not only that the antecedent always hat been followed by the consequent, but that, as long as the present constitution of things endures,...

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...since these phenomena have invariably succeeded one another from the beginning of the world. But it is necessary to our using the word Cause, that we should...not believe that night will be followed by day under any imaginable circumstance, only that it will be so, provided the sun rises above the horizon." But...