But the mind is so constituted that it does not willingly rest in facts and immediate causes, but seeks always after a knowledge of the remoter links in the chain of causation.

CAUSATION 1.

causality, causation; origination; production &c 161.

causation &c 153; instrumentality &c 631; influence &c 175; action &c (voluntary) 680; modus operandi &c 627.

Genius itself is a kind of knowledge, namely, of ideas; and it is a knowledge which is unconcerned with any principle of causation.

But what does not appear, and is no phenomenon, but rather the noumenon; what makes appearance possible; what is not subject to the principle of causation, and therefore has no vain or vanishing existence, but abides for ever unchanged in the midst of a world full of suffering, like a ray of light in a storm,free, therefore, from all pain and fatality,this, I say, is the intelligence.

"A proper view of the nature of causation.... places the vital doctrine of the being and the providence of a God on ground that can never be shaken."

The principle would seem to be that slow and gradual processes, and especially separate lines of causation, should be left outside the frame of the picture, and that the curtain should be raised at the point where separate lines have converged, and where the crisis begins to move towards its solution with more or less rapidity and continuity.

He passed instinctively to the point at which the two lines of causation converged, and from which the action could be carried continuously forward by one set of characters.

Moreover, Hume's analysis made havoc of all idea, of 'causation.'

The real question about causation is not how events can be connected causally, but why are certain antecedents preferred and dissected out and entitled 'causes.'

The old empiricist view, as typified by Mill, was that the mind had been impressed with all its principles, such as the truths of arithmetic, the axioms of geometry, and the law of causation, by an uncontradicted course of experience, until it generalized facts into 'laws,' and was enabled to predict a similar future with certainty.

Causation serves as a good example.

In order to appreciate this explanation of the causation of navicular disease at its true value, it will be well to consider briefly the physiology of the parts in question.

The compression theory as to the causation of navicular disease was, we believe, first originated by Colonel Smith.

As pointing out the part that concussion plays in its causation, we may mention that navicular disease is a disease of the middle-aged and the worked animal.

In conclusion, it is well, perhaps, to say that, no matter to which particular theory of causation we may lean, we should make up our minds to consider them as a whole.

On the one hand, we know that evolution has proceeded during an enormous time on this earth, under, so far as we can gather, a system of rigorous causation, with no economy of time or of instruments, and with no show of special ruth for those who may in pure ignorance have violated the conditions of life.

Causation of hay fever.

The life of every man, however restricted its range, is something of a miracle; but the course of a single life, like that of humanity, is assuredly based on a development that proceeds from a series of causations.

In law the ordinary rule for a "proximate cause" is "an event or happening in the direct line of causation, not too remote, that has led to the result, and without which the result could not have happened."

It is primarily an outward thing, as emotion, which is a phase of personality, is an inward thing; what the necessary sequence of events, the chain of causation, is to plot,its cardinal idea,that the necessary harmony of parts, the chime of line and colour, is to beauty; thus beauty is as inevitable as fate, as structurally planted in the form and colour of the universe as fate is in its temporal movement.

He denied that language was innate, but revealed, and that causation was inherent in matter (1758-1840).

That which was done in the ordinary way, that which was done through ordinary processes of causation, seemed to be cheapened and to lose its value.

The grandeur of natural causation 2.