It is somewhat singular, however, that while most writers have ceased to explain the physical diversities of races by external causes, such as climate, food, etc.
In whatever manner the diversities among the various branches of the human family may have originated, whether they are primordial or were produced by external causes, their permanency is now generally admitted.
It is quite clear that such impulses do not originate in the constitution of the tissue in question, but are due to the operation of external causes.
It is erroneous to always look for the explanation of the mode of egg-formation in the direct action of external causes.
Footnote 113: [Our present knowledge of the development of vegetable ova (including the position of the parts of the embryo) is also in favour of the view that it is not influenced by external causes, such as gravitation and light.
It is evident from what I have said, that we are in many ways driven about by external causes, and that like waves of the sea driven by contrary winds we toss to and fro unwitting of the issue and of our fate.
Perhaps there will be many who will be unable to see the force of this proof, inasmuch as they are accustomed only to consider those things which flow from external causes.
Dental caries is produced, according to Galen, by the internal action of acrid and corroding humors, that is, it is produced in the same manner as those cutaneous ulcers which appear without any influence of external causes.
When the teeth, without the action of external causes, become loosened, Galen holds that this is due to a relaxation of the dental nerve in consequence of an excessive abundance of humors.
The external causes are sprains or any injury to the region.
The external causes are strains caused by slipping, turning quickly, rearing, pulling heavy loads and kicks.
The principal external causes are wrong methods of shoeing and allowing the shoes to remain on the feet for too long a period.
From what has been said it is plain that we are disturbed by external causes in a number of ways, and that, like the waves of the sea agitated by contrary winds, we fluctuate in our ignorance of our future and destiny.
So long, therefore, as we attend only to the thing itself, and not to external causes, we shall discover nothing in it which can destroy it.
However, let us descend to created things, which are all determined by external causes to exist and operate in a given determinate manner.
In contrast with these there were other conditions operating upon the Church from without; and such may be classed as external causes.
The force whereby a man persists in existing is limited, and is infinitely surpassed by the power of external causes.
Darwin assumed an accumulative influence of external causes in the case of the production of new varieties or species.
But the complete elucidation of any phenomenon of life must always combine the study of the influence of internal with that of external causes.
These changes must, of course, also be due partly to internal and partly to external causes.
Which of two alternative determinants shall develop depends sometimes on internal, sometimes on external causes, according as the specific determinant has arisen phylogenetically through the action of internal or external causes.
Ordinarily we think that death is due to external causes, such as accident or disease.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "external causes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
