When we have a sufficient cause to accuse him to the magistrate.
It is not simply unlawful to cast away a cup of wine or a piece of silver (for it is lawful upon a sufficient cause); but it is unlawful to do it without any sufficient cause.
And these results are due to the fact that the bodily temperament is an occasional but not a sufficient cause of incontinence, as stated above.
We are farther told that impressment of seamen was not considered a sufficient cause of war; and are asked why should it be continued on that account?
In this case, nature is the complete and all-sufficient cause of every event; and condition and conditioned, cause and effect are contained in the same series, and necessitated by the same law.
The third idea of pure reason, containing the hypothesis of a being which is valid merely as a relative hypothesis, is that of the one and all-sufficient cause of all cosmological series, in other words, the idea of God.
Further, if there is a sufficient cause, there is an effect; for a cause to which there is no effect is an imperfect cause, requiring something else to make the effect follow.
For given a sufficient cause, the effect follows of necessity.
The likeness of nature is not a sufficient cause of knowledge; otherwise what Empedocles said would be true--that the soul needs to have the nature of all in order to know all.
Objection 1: It would seem that Christ's Resurrection is not the cause of the resurrection of our bodies, because, given a sufficient cause, the effect must follow of necessity.
Further, given a sufficient cause, nothing more seems to be required for the effect.
If every event must have a cause, every event must have a sufficient cause.
It forbids, therefore, our belief in an eternal matter and an eternal mind, unless we can show reason for holding that one of them alone is not a sufficient cause of the universe.
If every event have not a sufficient cause, some events have no cause at all.
This, then, I say, we necessarily know that the efficient cause of every event is a sufficient cause, however vague may be our knowledge of efficiency and sufficiency.
The absence of a sufficient cause to change the weight, is, then, the critical point of the argument, and the perfect trust of the mind in the principle of sufficient cause forces us to the conclusion that Matter is indestructible.
The binding force of the whole argument rests upon a rational principle here overlooked by Mr. Spencer, the principle of sufficient cause.
Bad air alone, even swamp air, does not appear to be a sufficient cause.
Personal habits have been in the eyes of earlier observers an all-sufficient cause, and thus excessive exertion attended with fatigue and exhaustion has been considered the cause of several severe outbreaks on shore and at sea.
The destruction by the cancer of a certain amount of secreting surface can be adduced as a sufficient cause only in exceptional cases of extensive cancerous infiltration.
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