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  1 III,    0, 19    |  Contiguity in time or place, and Cause or Effect.~ That these principles
  2 III,    0, 19(*) |                                3) Cause and effect.~
  3 III,    0, 19(*) |           the other; that is, the cause of its annihilation, and
  4  IV,    I, 22    |        founded on the realtion of Cause and Effect. By means of
  5  IV,    I, 22    |        founded on the relation of cause and effect, and that this
  6  IV,    I, 23    |        arrive at the knowledge of cause and effect.~ I shall venture
  7  IV,    I, 25    |        the effect in the supposed cause, by the most accurate scrutiny
  8  IV,    I, 25    |        totally different from the cause, and consequently can never
  9  IV,    I, 25    |          or connexion between the cause and effect, which binds
 10  IV,    I, 25    |        from the operation of that cause. When I see, for instance,
 11  IV,    I, 25    |          as well follow from that cause? May not both these balls
 12  IV,    I, 25    |           distinct event from its cause. It could not, therefore,
 13  IV,    I, 25    |   therefore, be discovered in the cause, and the first invention
 14  IV,    I, 25    |        conjunction of it with the cause must appear equally arbitrary;
 15  IV,    I, 25    |        single event, or infer any cause or effect, without the assistance
 16  IV,    I, 26    |  pretended to assign the ultimate cause of any natural operation,
 17  IV,    I, 27    |     consider merely any object or cause, as it appears to the mind,
 18  IV,   II, 28    |        founded on the relation of cause and effect. When again it
 19  IV,   II, 28    |   experience of the operations of cause and effect, our conclusions
 20  IV,   II, 30    |        founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge
 21  IV,   II, 33    |           a similar effect from a cause which is similar in its
 22   V,    I, 35    |         able to reach the idea of cause and effect; since the particular
 23   V,    I, 35    |          therefore the one is the cause, the other the effect. Their
 24   V,    I, 36    |            or pretend to give the cause of this cause; but must
 25   V,    I, 36    |         to give the cause of this cause; but must rest contented
 26   V,   II, 41    |       arises from the relation of cause and effect. And if the case
 27   V,   II, 44    |    transition of thought from the cause to the effect proceeds not
 28   V,   II, 44    |           in this whole matter to cause such a strong conception,
 29  VI,    0, 46    |         our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same
 30  VI,    0, 47    |   medicines. It is true, when any cause fails of producing its usual
 31  VI,    0, 47    |        which will result from any cause, we transfer all the different
 32 VII,    I, 50    |           binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an
 33 VII,    I, 50    |            particular instance of cause and effect, anything which
 34 VII,    I, 50    |        the power or energy of any cause discoverable by the mind,
 35 VII,    I, 52    |   apparent energy or power in the cause, which connects it with
 36 VII,    I, 53    |          very circumstance in the cause, by which it is enabled
 37 VII,    I, 53    |          therefore, know both the cause and effect, and the relation
 38 VII,    I, 53    |   acquaintance with the nature of cause and effect, but only by
 39 VII,    I, 54    |       very force or energy of the cause, by which it is connected
 40 VII,    I, 54    |        upon the appearance of the cause, they immediately expect
 41 VII,    I, 54    |           loss to assign a proper cause, and to explain the manner
 42 VII,    I, 54    |       principle* as the immediate cause of that event which surprises
 43 VII,    I, 54    |         events, the energy of the cause is as unintelligible as
 44 VII,    I, 55    |         the ultimate and original cause of all things, but the immediate
 45 VII,    I, 55    |        but the immediate and sole cause of every event which appears
 46 VII,    I, 55    |        the Deity is the immediate cause of the union between soul
 47 VII,    I, 57(*) |           put from it by some new cause; and that a body impelled
 48  II,    0, 58    |       force or power by which the cause operates, or any connexion
 49  II,    0, 59    |         then call the one object, Cause; the other, Effect. We suppose
 50  II,    0, 60    |          perfectly, it is that of cause and effect. On this are
 51  II,    0, 60    |       give any just definition of cause, except what is drawn from
 52  II,    0, 60    |        therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed
 53  II,    0, 60    |      existed. The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind,
 54  II,    0, 60    |        form another definition of cause, and call it, an object
 55  II,    0, 60    |      circumstances foreign to the cause, we cannot remedy this inconvenience,
 56  II,    0, 60    |          that circumstance in the cause, which gives it a connexion
 57  II,    0, 60    |   vibration of this string is the cause of this particular sound.
 58  II,    0, 60    |          consider the relation of cause and effect in either of
 59  II,    0, 60(*) |       relative as much as that of cause; and both have a reference
 60  II,    0, 60    |      connecting principle between cause and effect, or can account
 61  II,    0, 61    |           entertain the notion of cause and connexion. We then feel
 62 VIII,    I, 64   |   determined by the energy of its cause that no other effect, in
 63 VIII,    I, 64   |        the other. The relation of cause and effect must be utterly
 64 VIII,    I, 65   |           specious colouring of a cause. And though virtue and honour
 65 VIII,    I, 67   |       from any contingency in the cause, but from the secret operation
 66 VIII,    I, 67   |        follow from any particular cause; the philosopher and physician
 67 VIII,    I, 69   |       uniform as that between the cause and effect in any part of
 68 VIII,    I, 71   |   necessary connexion between the cause and the effect. When again
 69 VIII,    I, 71   |     farther connexion between the cause and effect; and connexion
 70 VIII,    I, 72(*)|       accounted for, from another cause, viz. a false sensation
 71 VIII,    I, 74   |          nothing exists without a cause of its existence, and that
 72 VIII,    I, 74   | definitions. Let any one define a cause, without comprehending,
 73 VIII,    I, 74   |         entertained any notion of cause and effect; and this regular
 74 VIII,    I, 74   |          attempts a definition of cause, exclusive of these circumstances,
 75 VIII,    I, 74(*)|                        Thus, if a cause be defined, that which produces
 76 VIII,    I, 74(*)|     causing. In like manner, if a cause be defined, that by which
 77 VIII,    I, 74(*)|          Had it been said, that a cause is that after which any
 78 VIII,   II, 75   |         to the two definitions of cause, of which it makes an essential
 79 VIII,   II, 76   |     action, it must be esteemed a cause, and be looked upon as an
 80 VIII,   II, 76   |        they proceed not from some cause in the character and disposition
 81 VIII,   II, 76   |         temper, though a constant cause or principle in the mind,
 82 VIII,   II, 78   |        reaching from the original cause of all to every single volition
 83 VIII,   II, 78   |         proceeding from so good a cause; or if they have any turpitude,
 84 VIII,   II, 78   | acknowledged to be their ultimate cause and author. For as a man,
 85 VIII,   II, 78   |      render criminal the original cause, if the connexion between
 86 VIII,   II, 81   |          Deity can be the mediate cause of all the actions of men,
 87  IX,    0, 82    |       leads us to expect from any cause the same events, which we
 88   X,    I, 96    |          a case, he would have no cause to complain of experience;
 89   X,    I, 97    |        founded on the relation of cause and effect. I shall not
 90   X,    I, 97    |     opposite circumstances, which cause any doubt or uncertainty;
 91   X,   II, 102   |       sake of promoting so holy a cause: or even where this delusion
 92   X,   II, 106   |         so holy and meritorious a cause?~ The smallest spark may
 93  XI,    0, 112   |          easily have defended his cause, and proved his principles
 94  XI,    0, 114   |     extravagant to assign for its cause, either chance, or the blind
 95  XI,    0, 114   |           we infer any particular cause from an effect, we must
 96  XI,    0, 114   |         allowed to ascribe to the cause any qualities, but what
 97  XI,    0, 114   |         exceeds a hundred, If the cause, assigned for any effect,
 98  XI,    0, 114   |           must either reject that cause, or add to it such qualities
 99  XI,    0, 114   |           rule holds, whether the cause assigned be brute unconscious
100  XI,    0, 114   |         intelligent being. If the cause be known only by the effect,
101  XI,    0, 114   |   reasoning, return back from the cause, and infer other effects
102  XI,    0, 114   |           to be possessed of. The cause must be proportioned to
103  XI,    0, 115   |           effect, to Jupiter, the cause; and then descend downwards,
104  XI,    0, 115   |          any new effect from that cause; as if the present effects
105  XI,    0, 115   |       deity. The knowledge of the cause being derived solely from
106  XI,    0, 115   |   phenomena in nature. You seek a cause or author. You imagine that
107  XI,    0, 116   |          such reason, is the sole cause, which controlled the power
108  XI,    0, 116   |    granted, or why ascribe to the cause any qualities but what actually
109  XI,    0, 116   |          to the attributes of the cause, beyond what appears in
110  XI,    0, 116   |      render it more worthy of the cause.~
111  XI,    0, 117   |           to know anything of the cause, but what you have antecedently,
112  XI,    0, 119   |          a particular intelligent cause, which first bestowed, and
113  XI,    0, 119   |     because our knowledge of this cause being derived entirely from
114  XI,    0, 119   |   reasoning, return back from the cause with any new inference,
115  XI,    0, 120   |         again, from this inferred cause, to infer new additions
116  XI,    0, 121   |    advance from the effect to the cause, and returning back from
117  XI,    0, 121   |           returning back from the cause, to form new inferences
118  XI,    0, 121   |      mount from the effect to the cause; and descending again from
119  XI,    0, 121   |         descending again from the cause, infer alterations in the
120  XI,    0, 122   |          for us to argue from the cause, or infer any alteration
121  XI,    0, 122(*)|           a maxim, that where any cause is known only by its particular
122  XI,    0, 122(*)|         any new effects from that cause; since the qualities, which
123  XI,    0, 122(*)|          effect, whence alone the cause is supposed to be known
124  XI,    0, 122(*)|          all our knowledge of the cause is originally derived. Let
125  XI,    0, 122(*)|         derived. Let the inferred cause be exactly proportioned (
126  XI,    0, 124   |      whether it be possible for a cause to be known only by its
127  XI,    0, 124   |         similarity with any other cause or object, that has ever
128  XI,    0, 124   |   inference at all concerning its cause. If experience and observation
129  XI,    0, 124   |       nature; both the effect and cause must bear a similarity and
130  XI,    0, 124   |           the proof of a Deity, a cause no less singular and unparalleled;
131  XI,    0, 124   |          can ever return from the cause to the effect, and, reasoning
132 XII,    I, 128   |        spirit, or from some other cause still more unknown to us?
133 XII,    I, 131(*)|           Their only effect is to cause that momentary amazement
134 XII,    I, 132   |    inexplicable something, as the cause of our perceptions; a notion
135 XII,   II, 136   |     entirely from the relation of cause and effect; that we have
136 XII,  III, 141   |      proved by arguments from its cause or its effect; and these
137 XII,  III, 141   |          the nature and bounds of cause and effect, and enables
138 XII,  III, 141(*)|           create it, or any other cause, that the most whimsical