Well, the tunnel was started about the middle of January, 1916.
By the sale of more soap to miners we had acquired another map and a compass, so we had little difficulty in determining our whereabouts and settling our course for the border.
Sidenote: The Taurus range is the natural frontier of Egypt.
The fact has been established that alcoholism is a very potent factor in the causation of tuberculosis.
The tendency is due, in my opinion, to the study of the physiological action of drugs, and to the better understanding of the causation of disease and pathological processes.
He accepts Hume's view of causation in all questions of physical science.
Perhaps, however, intellectual association is a larger factor than instinct in the causationof racial affection and hatred.
The difficulties in this are great (owing in part to our ignorance of the varied reactions of self-consciousness on instinct), but a wide extension of the idea of causation is not inconsistent with an increased intensity of moral passion.
All actual causation must interpret omnipotence, the all-knowing [15] Mind.
One cannot but suspect indigo as a factor in the causation of this anomalous coloration.
There seems to be no satisfactory clue to the causation of these abnormalisms.
We shall attempt no scientific discussion of the causation or embryologic derivation of the monster, contenting ourselves with simple history and description, adding any associate facts of interest that may be suggested.
The old explanation of the causation of the remarkable exceptions to the rules of prolificity was similar to that advanced by Empedocles, who says that the greater the quantity of semen, the greater the number of children at birth.
The influence of heredity in thecausation of congenital defects of the eye is strikingly illustrated by De Beck.
The theories of the causation of ainhum are quite numerous.
Especially must this be so where the causation is complex.
If, however, we omit the feeling of causation from the external chain of events, it does not follow that there is no causation to be apprehended in the external world.
Let us not introduce the notion of causation at haphazard.
It appears to me, however, that these theories have been worked out under the influence of a notion of causation which is essentially false.
How slowly, as a consequence of its dependence, the conception of causation evolves, a glance at the evidence shows.
Deficient belief in causation is, indeed, exemplified even in those whose discipline has been specially fitted to generate this belief--even in men of science.
And only when growing science accumulates examples of quantitative relations, foreseen and verified, throughout a widening range of phenomena, does causation come to be conceived as necessary and universal.
But acceptance of these generalizations and the inferences from them does not amount to recognition of causation in the full sense of the word.
If there is not an unconsciousness of causation there is an ignoring of it.
I also claim that meat eating has much to do with the causation of cancer.
It explains why an atrophied skin has so much to do with the causation of disease and why in the treatment of both acute and chronic ailments air and cold water produce such wonderful results.
This will be explained fully in the following chapters which deal with the causation of acute and chronic disease.
The only idea which we can form of causation is derivable from the constant conjunction of objects, and the consequent inference of one from the other.
But our idea of causation is alone derivable from the constant conjunction of objects and the consequent inference of one from the other; and, reasoning experimentally, we can only infer from effects causes exactly adequate to those effects.
But the only idea we can form of causation is a constant conjunction of similar objects, and the consequent inference of one from the other: wherever this is the case necessity is clearly established.
The belief, then, in causation has precisely the same import according to Hume and Brown; and both agree that it is not produced by 'reasoning.
Brown's account ofcausation had a great influence upon both the Mills, and especially affected the teaching of the younger Mill.
That, as he argues in detail, is merely begging the question, by introducing the principle of causation under an alias.
Brown, as we have seen, both in his theory of causation and in his theory of our belief in an external world, speaks of principles in the mind which somehow override 'ratiocination.
But where the question is, Supposing the physical causation ultimately due to Mind, what are we to infer concerning the character of the Mind which has adopted this method of causation?
C) That if He is so, and if His will is self-consistent, all natural causation must needs appear to us 'mechanical.
The principles in question are the nature of causation and the nature of faith.
In Chapter VII of his First Principles he argues that all causation arises immediately out of existence as such, or, as he states it, that 'uniformity of law inevitably follows from the persistence of force.
Is the will entirely determined by natural causation (x)?
What else have science and religion ever had to fight about save on the basis of this common hypothesis, and hence as to whether the causation of such and such a phenomenon has been 'natural' or 'super-natural.
And it is in referring phenomena to this inexplicable source of physical causation that the theory of Religion essentially consists.
So that the facts of adaptation, like all other facts, are only available as arguments for design when it is assumed that all natural causation is of a mental character: which assumption merely begs the question of design anywhere.
It is to be expected, moreover, that coincidences should occur,--the meeting of independent lines of causation with consequences fateful to each.
Causation not explained by any of the empirical sciences.
Responsibility involves Causation in the highest sense, together with Moral Sensibility.
Known facts of Causation result in the Unknowable; a condition which attaches to the most certain of all truths.
Most men, when meditating over their own lives, think rather of the causation they have themselves exercised, or might have exercised, than of any iron links of causality in nature.
As concerns his own mode of establishing the idea of causation in its proper and peculiar force, Professor Powell agrees with a large number of metaphysicians, ancient and modern.
Like any other simple idea, it cannot be defined; and hence the difficulty of verbally distinguishing causation from mere succession.
Another way of looking at the subject of Causation may appear simpler to some minds.
The main object of the present Chapter is to distinguish the physical chain of Sequency from Causation properly so termed.
The Principle of Causationconsidered in opposition to Atheistic Theories, p.
The determination of will is the production or causation of choice.
Now the causation of choice and the determination of the will are here intended to be distinguished, no more than the causation of motion and the determination of the moving body.
In this reasoning he plainly assumes that the connexion between cause and effect in general, is a necessary connexion; that is, all causation is necessary.
Duration acts as a cause; but this temporal or psychological causation has no more analogy with what is called causation in nature than temporal variousness has with number, or intensity with magnitude.
In the first place, there is no unbroken sequence of uninterrupted economic causation from that far away hypothetical day to the present, in the course of which that original quantity of value has exerted its influence.
Whenever a small set of abstractions is picked out, as the source and cause of the rest of a movement, such a process of rectilinear causation is implied.
Again, while efficient causation resolves itself into the categories of actio and passio, the causation of final, formal and material causes cannot be referred to these categories, but neither does it constitute any new category.
Before enumerating the principal kinds of efficient cause, and analysing the nature of efficient causality, we may set down here certain self-evident axioms and aphorisms concerning causation in general.
The causation of the formal cause consists in its formally constituting the effect: it is always either a substantial or an accidental form, and so must be referred to the categories of substance, or quality, or quantity.
Considerable diversity of opinion exists at present regarding the causation of general paralysis.
Childbirth and lactation are also important factors in the causation of the condition.
Autointoxication is said to play a prominent role in thecausation of melancholia.
We therefore adopt the view of Maine de Biran, that causation pertains only to spirit.
Causation in our own wills enables us to see something besides mere antecedence and consequence in the world about us.
Is it not evident that this is a mere trick of imagination, concealing its thefts of causation by committing them little by little, and taking the heap from the divine storehouse grain by grain?
Certain very important consequences follow from the conception of efficient causation which we have been describing.
A word may be added about the third sort of efficient causality, causation by chance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "causation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
