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 1  IV,    I, 23   |            to discover any of its causes or effects. Adam, though
 2  IV,    I, 23   |         to the senses, either the causes which produced it, or the
 3  IV,    I, 24   |            This proposition, that causes and effects are discoverable,
 4  IV,    I, 26   |        effects into a few general causes, by means of reasonings
 5  IV,    I, 26   |        observation. But as to the causes of these general causes,
 6  IV,    I, 26   |           causes of these general causes, we should in vain attempt
 7  IV,    I, 26   |         are probably the ultimate causes and principles which we
 8  IV,    I, 27   |         the knowledge of ultimate causes, by all that accuracy of
 9  IV,   II, 31   |           different objects. From causes which appear similar we
10  IV,   II, 33   |       expect similar effects from causes which are, to appearance,
11   V,   II, 40   |      present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the
12   V,   II, 44   |           and arises from similar causes, with the transition of
13   V,   II, 44   |        and contemplation of final causes, have here ample subject
14   V,   II, 45   |      infer like effects from like causes, and vice versa, is so essential
15  VI,    0, 47   |           with the probability of causes, as with that of chance.
16  VI,    0, 47   |         of chance. There are some causes, which are entirely uniform
17  VI,    0, 47   |    exception. But there are other causes, which have been found more
18  VI,    0, 47   |         suppose, that some secret causes, in the particular structure
19  VI,    0, 47   |         been found to follow from causes, which are to appearance
20 VII,    I, 48   |          our enquiries concerning causes, and reduces us to an acknowledgment
21 VII,    I, 50   |         consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a
22 VII,    I, 55   |          are commonly denominated causes, are in reality nothing
23 VII,    I, 57(*)|        Isaac Newton to rob second causes of all force or energy;
24  II,    0, 60   |   regulate future events by their causes. Our thoughts and enquiries
25 VIII,    I, 65  |       events follow from the same causes. Ambition, avarice, self-love,
26 VIII,    I, 67  |          of external objects. All causes are not conjoined to their
27 VIII,    I, 67  |        such an uncertainty in the causes as makes the latter often
28 VIII,    I, 67  |      secret operation of contrary causes. This possibility is converted
29 VIII,    I, 67  |          betrays a contrariety of causes, and proceeds from their
30 VIII,    I, 67  |         the connexion between all causes and effects is equally necessary,
31 VIII,    I, 67  |     secret opposition of contrary causes.~ Thus, for instance, in
32 VIII,    I, 70  |        connected chain of natural causes and voluntary actions; but
33 VIII,    I, 70  |          or senses, by a train of causes, cemented together by what
34 VIII,    I, 71  |  production of effects from their causes, we shall find that all
35 VIII,    I, 71  |           necessity common to all causes. And though this reasoning
36 VIII,    I, 71  |        the operations of material causes.~
37 VIII,    I, 72  |          when applied to material causes; and to convince ourselves
38 VIII,    I, 74  |         it is pretended that some causes are necessary, some not
39 VIII,   II, 75  |           to material objects and causes. Nothing, therefore, can
40 VIII,   II, 76  |       necessity, and consequently causes, a man is as pure and untainted,
41 VIII,   II, 78  |      continued chain of necessary causes, preordained and pre-determined,
42 VIII,   II, 78  |      continued chain of necessary causes is fixed, that Being, either
43  IX,    0, 82   |   observed to result from similar causes. Where the causes are entirely
44  IX,    0, 82   |         similar causes. Where the causes are entirely similar, the
45  IX,    0, 83   |       always follow from the same causes. By this principle they
46  IX,    0, 84   |         of inferring effects from causes, be trusted to the uncertain
47  IX,    0, 84(*)|    reasonings concerning facts or causes is derived merely from custom,
48  IX,    0, 86   |        there is a complication of causes to produce any effect, one
49   X,    I, 96   |     certainty from their supposed causes. Some events are found,
50   X,    I, 98   |    derived from several different causes; from the opposition of
51   X,   II, 103  |           effect of those natural causes, which we experience. Prodigies,
52   X,   II, 108  |           ought to search for the causes whence it might be derived.
53  XI,    0, 114  |    argument drawn from effects to causes. From the order of the work,
54  XI,    0, 116  |        inferences from effects to causes, I still insist, that they
55  XI,    0, 116  |         inference, and argue from causes to effects; presuming, that
56  XI,    0, 116  |  appearances of things prove such causes, it is allowable for you
57  XI,    0, 116  | concerning the existence of these causes. In such complicated and
58  XI,    0, 116  |        arguing from your inferred causes, conclude, that any other
59  XI,    0, 117  |          be drawn from effects to causes; and that every argument,
60  XI,    0, 117  |           argument, deducted from causes to effects, must of necessity
61  XI,    0, 124  |  resemblance to other effects and causes, which we know, and which
62 XII,  III, 141  |           c. where the qualities, causes and effects of a whole species