...organs, or that he were to be compared with some being who had them not, and cases may be imagined in The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the...any phenomenon, a special enumeration of which would generally.be very prolix, may be all summed up under one head, namely, the absence of preventing or...

...are invariably consequent, must be the cause (or connected with the cause) of that effect." A cause " is the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...contingencies of every description — which being realised, the consequent follows." • See, for a debate on this topic, " British Controversialist,"...

...thing as an isolated cause producing isolated effects. Mills, in his incomparable logic, says : — " The cause then, philosophically speaking, is the sum...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. It is seldom, if ever, between a consequent and one single antecedent that this invariable sequence...

...notion, on VOL. I. 24 the contrary, any one of the conditions, either positive or negative, is found, on occasion, completely to accord.* The cause, then,...description, which being realized, the consequent invariahly follows. The negative * The assertion, that any and every one of the conditions of a phenomenon...

...yourself a temporary reputation of success ? " The cause then, philosophically speaking," says Mr. Mill, " is the sum total of the conditions positive and negative...description which being realized, the consequent invariably follows."1 But what a caricature of our conception of cause this is ! " The sum total of all the conditions...

...n'ya pas besoin d'en supposer un autre que 1. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents. 2. The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. 3. If there be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness....

...condition, voilà toute la notion d'effet et de cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, then, philosophically speaking, is the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. (2) If ihere be any meauing which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is wiconditionatness....

...d'en supposer un autre que 1. The real Cause, is the whole of these antecedents. 2. The cause, $ien, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. 3. If there he any meaning which confessedly belongs to the term necessity, it is unconditionalness....

...la notion d'effet et de cause. Nous n'en avons pas d'autre. Les philosophes se (1) The cause, ihen, philosophically speaking, is the sum total of the...being realized, the consequent invariably follows. (2) If Ihere be any meaning which confessedly belongs to the terni necessity, it is unconditionalness....

...right to give the name ' of cause to one of them, exclusively of the others." And again, " the Cause is the sum total of the Conditions, positive and negative,...being realized, the consequent invariably follows." Among these " negative " conditions, or rather, as the sum of them, he ranks " the absence of preventing...