What you call an unforeseeable form is only a new arrangement of old elements.
Both doctrines are reluctant to see in the course of things generally, or even simply in the development of life, an unforeseeable creation of form.
Explaining it always consists in resolving it, it the unforeseeable and new, into elements old or known, arranged in a different order.
The direction of this action is not predetermined; hence the unforeseeable variety of forms which life, in evolving, sows along its path.
The following set of cases will illustrate the principle: (1) We do not hold a man responsible at all for unforeseeable results of his action.
Man is hemmed in as to thought and action on all sides by all kinds of mysterious forces working in unforeseeable ways.
This translation of consequences once wholly unforeseeable into consequences which have to be taken in account is at its maximum in the change of impulsive into intelligent action.
It is mainly in order to escape from the necessity of facing this terrifying series of unforeseeable dilemmas that the crowd-man walketh in a vain show.
New and often unforeseeable results are thus reached; but they are reached, as in all organic growth and in all sound thinking, by a series of successful adjustments within the real.
For (as I have said above) the patient's belief that his present troubles are an unforeseeable accident, a sudden catastrophe, is almost never true.
We are told what a wholly unforeseeable accident it was that got her into her trouble.
