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But in this case it is easy to find the first cause—Western science got started because the Renaissance happened. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
I make the egg rounds, starting with ole Miss Walter first cause she the elder. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z
This might seem to beg the question of how the ball got rolling in the first place—the ‘first cause’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z
But there had always been the lake, which was the town’s first cause of existence, a place for immigrant settlers to put down their loads. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z
“Our main and first cause, the mother of all causes, the Palestinian issue, will be at the heart of our concerns and our main priority,” Tebboune said. Leaders meet in Algeria for final day of Arab League summit 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z
While the concept of a first cause or unmoved mover was present within Aristotle’s works, Aquinas identified the Christian idea of God as the “unmoved mover.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
Example: “The first cause is poverty; the second cause is poor health; the third cause is discrimination. These causes have been studied, but to what effect?” Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z
The disease first causes flu-like symptoms before progressing to a rash on the face and body and is commonly found in parts of central and west Africa. US boosts monkeypox testing, 142 cases confirmed 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z
The smallpox-related disease, which first causes flu-like symptoms before progressing to a rash on the face and body, is commonly found in parts of central and west Africa. Lebanon latest in Mideast to detect 1st case of monkeypox 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z
West Antarctica “is what will first cause big problems for everyone with sea level rise,” he said. Ice shelf bigger than New York City breaks off eastern Antarctica 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z
The primary focus of cosmological arguments will be on proving a logically necessary first cause to explain the order observed. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
Kerry’s first cause after returning from fighting in the Vietnam War was activism for the first Earth Day, in 1970, he says. Kerry rallies global climate push as uncertainty grows in US 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z
Racism was treated throughout the night as an independent variable, a first cause, as in talking about Trump and his brand of racism, without any connection to our way of life. Democrats retreat from reality: Understanding last week's depressing debate 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z
That heat is the first cause is not a surprise. Burnt workers are the newest wave of climate casualty 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z
But under the theory of “first causes,” there would not have been a Prescott without a Mullen to recruit and groom him. Mississippi editorial roundup 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z
Although the Egyptian elite quickly reestablished the temples and the practices of the full pantheon of gods after Akhenaten’s death, theological thought incorporated this idea of an all-powerful invisible first cause. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
She says the first cause for alarm was in 2001, when census figures showed a sharp drop. Glimmer of hope at last for India's vanishing Parsis - BBC News 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z
Initially seen as the acts of disaffected youth with no real connection to the Islamic State, these plots did not at first cause alarm, officials say. Long Before It Lost Turf, ISIS Was Already Targeting Britain 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z
President Donald Trump in "key policy areas" are seen as the first cause of uncertainty for the bloc's economy. Citing Trump and Brexit, EU sees euro zone economy risk, sharp drop in UK growth 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z
On the contrary, with his first cause to believe his freedom might be near, he was somber during the interview at Woodbourne Correctional Facility in November, thinking back on that day long ago. Four Decades Later, Teenage Killer Is Paroled, and Deported 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z
Somewhat obscurely, Aristotle claims that this first cause is “thought thinking itself.” Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
"The first cause of environmental degradation... is the number of people on the planet," Sarkozy said. France's Sarkozy says population bigger threat than climate change 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z
Traffic is also the first cause for noise pollution in the city; 61% of its residents live with noise levels higher than those deemed healthy by legislation. Superblocks to the rescue: Barcelona’s plan to give streets back to residents 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z
During Locket’s death, officials used a three-drug cocktail, never used before in Oklahoma, to first cause unconsciousness, then stop respiration, and ultimately end the beating of the heart. Lack of protocol in Clayton Lockett's Oklahoma execution: Records 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z
His first cause, as a Quaker and a pacifist, is nonviolence; his job is executive secretary of the War Resisters League. Planning the March on Washington
For Aristotle, there can be no immaterial forms—everything that exists has some material basis, though he allows an exception for his first cause, the unmoved mover. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
She became the first cause célèbre for the Ethiopian Women Lawyers’ Association and was finally released on the grounds of her youth and acting in self-defence. The Rape Victim Who Fought Back and Shamed a Nation
Loosening the embargo might help more Cubans see that “the first cause of poverty and lack of liberty is not the embargo, it’s the totalitarian government of Cuba,” Mr. Sánchez said. Sudden U.S. Thaw Worries Cuban Dissidents 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z
The first cause of any company must be its own: to succeed by making the lives of its customers and employees better through the products or services it provides. The Dangers of Cause Marketing 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z
As to the wealth inequality in Sweden being higher than in the UK the first cause is called “the Wallenbergs”. Contra Piketty Sweden Is More Unequal Than Britain 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z
Instead, he writes that we can define God in five ways: as an unmoved mover, first cause, necessary being, absolute being, and grand designer. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
Like the first cause, trial conversions are not leading to sales, but it isn’t because the product is not working. How To Survive A Failed Product Plan -- And Come Back Even Stronger 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z
The search for a first cause often ends in mythology. Why the SEC Dominates College Football, in Six Charts 2013-12-27T14:10:37Z
Saving the park from a government plan to replace it with a commercial replica of an Ottoman-era army barracks was the first cause of the protesters. Turkey Expands Violent Reaction to Street Unrest 2013-06-17T01:13:18Z
“Science doesn’t need a first cause, religion does,” said Krauss, a vocal atheist who made his distaste for both religion and philosophy known from the get-go. Physicists Debate the Many Varieties of Nothingness 2013-03-22T22:45:05.650Z
Each final cause leads to another, until we get to the first cause or prime mover. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
They demonstrate that policy uncertainty and weaker economic growth are related, not that the first causes the second. The cloud of uncertainty: Dithering in the dark 2012-06-14T15:06:51Z
We naturally believe in the existence of a first cause. The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. 2012-04-25T02:01:14.613Z
For the two first causes, the remedy is simple: it consists in returning to the principles instituted by the Prophet. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z
In this work he attacked pagan philosophy for its lack of logic in dealing with the root problems of life, the soul, the cosmos and the first cause or vital principle. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z
The Stoic god is a material entity who exists in nature and meticulously manages it, the material first cause of the universe, Aristotle’s unmoved mover incarnated as a material entity. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
That has probably been the cause of the trouble lately—if it wasn't the first cause. Mademoiselle Blanche A Novel 2012-04-07T02:00:33.037Z
Philosophy studies second causes; faith, the first cause alone. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z
The following year he commenced practice as an advocate, and pleaded his first cause at Delft. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z
It is now generally admitted, that this was one of the first causes of the Revolution, perhaps the most potent of all causes. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z
Similarly, God is the first cause of everything that exists, or else we face an infinite causal regress. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
It is easy to influence technique, but first causes are not set in action by human hands. Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day 2012-03-29T02:00:13.340Z
The first cause is the more important one, and is due directly to the rapidity of the alternations. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z
The first cause of the persecution of the Christians was the religious notion to which I have already referred. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-03-28T02:00:20.770Z
This is equivalent to saying that “God” is “first cause.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z
There is no first cause or prime mover in this system. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z
That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z
While high temperature is thus the first cause of that mobility which promotes welding, it is also the cause, in an oxidizing atmosphere, of that ‘burning’ which injures both the weld and the iron. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z
As to the first cause, though it is false that the prospective pleasure must necessarily be part of the idea, the opposite conclusion is not necessarily legitimate that desire is not for pleasure at all. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z
Another Theistic proposition is thus stated: “Every effect must have a cause; the first cause universal must be eternal: ergo, the first cause universal must be God.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z
It is true that the cause of any given effect may, itself, be the effect of other causes, and that the first cause of daily phenomena is not and probably cannot be understood. Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy 2012-03-12T03:00:27.817Z
In another world God will repay thy trust, and "reveal to thee the first causes of things which Leibnitz could not," as the queen of Prussia said, when she was dying. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z
Foolish young Robert was the first cause of the disaster. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z
Therefore there could have been no first cause. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 1 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:59.847Z
"God is the power, or first cause, Nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z
The first cause of worry remains Europe, despite signs that the tortuous negotiations that will allow Greece to get its €130bn bailout are at last staggering to a conclusion. Bank of England launches QE3 onto a still-stormy sea 2012-02-09T13:38:53Z
The first cause was the accumulation of people in towns, and the absorption there of the products of the country. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z
God is not the first cause of anything. Doctrine of the Will 2012-01-22T03:00:26.997Z
All causes then are but secondary, i.e. merely the occasions on which the one first cause operates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z
And this act is the first cause of the progress and civilization of mankind. Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century 2012-01-05T03:00:36.930Z
Investigation into first causes, abstruse mental phenomena, the science of being, he brushed aside as trash—mere scientific absurdities. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z
There can be little doubt that the great afflux of blood to the eyes and the ears is the first cause of these phenomena, but the peculiar nature of the visions remains still a mystery. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z
It is true that to determine this final cause of the world is also to determine its first cause. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z
None of the ph�nomena of Nature prove, but all disclaim a first cause. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z
Neither first causes, final causes, nor the essences of things, ought—according to it—to be the object of scientific research, for these, it considers, are not science, but metaphysics. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z
In the first cause he is as bold as a lion, but in the second many a modest soul is naturally, even though foolishly, bashful. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z
Possession is generally announced some time beforehand by premonitory symptoms, but the first cause is not always easily ascertained. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z
"Rationalist" worries himself into inextricable confusion over causes and effects, first causes, first causes and last effects, etc., etc. Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z
In denying any first cause, or creation of matter, I suppose you must allow that man cannot be a spontaneous production of the earth, and therefore the admission of his origin is unavoidable. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z
It remains standing wherever God is assumed as the first cause for the interaction between parts of reality. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z
The bitterness of hatred which was cherished by the gitanos towards all of gentile race, appears incomprehensible, unless it springs from some old-time "first cause," the nature of which is long forgotten. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z
Magnetic and miraculous cures differ not in their nature, but only in their first cause, precisely as the trance of somnambulists is identical with the trance of religious enthusiasts. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z
I will endeavor to make what materialists mean by the impossibility of a first cause or last effect clear to "Rationalist." Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others 2011-12-16T03:00:10.740Z
This state of things is all perfectly natural, unless we destroy the first cause of it: the bad distribution of their forces, and the stiffness caused by a bad conformation. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z
But it is no less true in the supernatural order of divine gifts, than in the order of nature, that the first cause produces its effects by means of second causes. St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture 2011-11-28T03:00:25.013Z
The first causes the individual to combine with his fellows and establish some form of government, and this is the origin of political evolution. The Book of Life 2011-11-25T03:00:13.343Z
Sorrow and sickness come of trespass, somehow, somewhere, somewhen, though it is not always easy to trace them back to first causes. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z
Here, then, are the first causes; and it is important, in all cases of a deviation from health, to ascertain, as near as possible, the causes, and remove them. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z
Now since his fright proceeds, so to say, from the bad position we allow him to take, this inconvenience will disappear from the moment we remedy the first cause of it. New Method of Horsemanship Including the Breaking and Training of Horses, with Instructions for Obtaining a Good Seat. 2011-12-03T03:00:11.190Z
If you come to first causes you'll find it hard to name the rightful owner--in God's sight--for any one thing. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z
The notion of first cause, however crude and rudimentary its form, is organic. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z
To this first cause was added that of secular race rivalry. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z
That anniversary of his first cause was celebrated by Paine also. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z
Their friendship was yet further broken by other circumstances which had their origin in the first cause of separation. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z
Napoleon, who was the incarnation of practical common sense, saw in her the first cause of the war, and considered that so far as verbal flagellation could punish her, she should have it. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z
We need to make no discursus, but only to look the idea of first cause through and through, and thoroughly analyze it, to find all the truth. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z
One should always forgive the faults of which one is the first cause. The Barber of Paris 2011-09-18T02:00:25.547Z
The air raids were one of the first causes of their weakening hold on the people. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z
I accepted the information, however, without inquiry into first causes, and went out in the evening to promenade in the All�e with the rest. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z
You do not believe in God, and everything on earth is of secondary importance to the man who attacks the first cause of everything. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z
The first cause for anxiety is the , and in particular the United States. Global markets take fright at the return of the zombie banks 2011-08-19T09:10:51Z
I had just concluded my first cause at the bar. Papers from Overlook-House 2011-08-07T02:00:08.643Z
The first cause was what seems to me a mistaken theory about plots in fiction, which she had adopted since writing the Illustrations. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z
I never have had the first cause to doubt his fidelity to me in this respect, and he never has had the first cause to doubt my own to him. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity 2011-07-04T02:00:24.763Z
Assuredly we cannot blame Russia for that depopulation of the country which was the first cause of its decadence. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z
We think it likely that plants and animals, from which, in course of time, man's substance is formed, have transmitted the first causes, the germs of some organic diseases with which they were themselves affected. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z
There will be a poetry of the heart, so long as there are tears and smiles: there will be a poetry of the imagination, as long as the first causes of things remain a mystery. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z
You call it energy and law, which we say is a result and not a cause, and point to spirit and will, which is the primitive, ultimate, first cause of universal energy and law. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z
From the first cause no great effects may follow because profits themselves constitute but a small portion of price, and no great addition or deduction can be made on their account. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z
The phenomena of the universe form a complete chain of causes and effects, and in an infinite regression there can be no first cause. Nature and the Gods From "The Atheistic Platform", Twelve Lectures 2011-05-31T02:00:33.907Z
Another Theistic proposition is thus stated: "Every effect must have a cause; the first cause universal must be eternal: ergo, the first cause universal must be God." A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
Attention is the basis of all expression, and the first cause of all action, since we turn our attention toward a person and listen to what he has to say before we speak to him. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z
The first cause of all discontent, weariness, bitterness and vanity of life is selfishness. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z
As the volition cannot make its motive, so neither can the volition make the cause of its motive, and so on in the retrogression of causes, back to the first cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Chances men call them, but, rightly viewed, they are the consequences of many other consequences, of which the first cause is hidden from our sight. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z
This is equivalent to saying that "God" is "first cause." A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
Here then is not an infinite series of causes, but a very short series, which terminates in the Deity or first cause,” p. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z
There, he sat reading and thinking, and reading again, as if he wanted to find out the first cause of all being. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z
Causes are of two kinds; first causes, or causes per se, or contingent and free causes, or will; and second or physical causes, which are necessary with a relative necessity. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Therefore it is that the handiwork of Goodness, of Beauty, and of Truth defies the centuries; the very eternity of their first causes gives them life. Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music 2011-04-12T02:00:25.667Z
Nay, more than this, the mightiest effort of mind can never say, This is the first cause. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z
They looked back to first causes, and found him at the end of the vista. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z
It was this calm, subconscious assumption of truth's ultimate harmony with nature's first cause which she delighted in as she entered physics and astronomy. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z
A physical cause is a cause instrumental of a first cause:—the will is first cause itself. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
There will be a poetry of the heart, as long as there are tears and smiles: there will be a poetry of the imagination, as long as the first causes of things remain a mystery. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z
The apprehensions of the owners of Diamond Company stock were the first causes of the feeling against the Don, and the disappointing termination of the long-anticipated fête was another fruitful source of bitterness. Mississippi Outlaws and the Detectives Don Pedro and the Detectives; Poisoner and the Detectives 2011-03-28T02:00:28.167Z
A chill which Augustus Hare caught when he was in Cheshire for his brother's marriage, was the first cause of his fatal illness. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z
"Alas!" said the marquis, "I know nothing; you have taught me nothing, and you are the first cause of my misfortunes." Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z
The infinite will is the first cause inhabiting eternity, filling immensity, and unlimited in its energy. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
This, Hunt later says, was the first cause of diminished cordiality between Byron and himself. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z
“The conduct alleged by plaintiff in support of its first cause of action may be reprehensible,” Superior Court Judge Ralph W. Dau said in his tentative written ruling. Judge says legislators, not courts, must decide if salaries paid CA officials are too high 2011-03-17T23:20:09Z
He did not analyse it down to its first cause. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z
Was not this then a cause; was it not a first cause? The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources 2011-03-08T03:00:45.010Z
Otherwise, we must come to a first cause which causes its own acts, without an act of causation; but this is impossible, according to the reasoning of Edwards. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Up to this moment I had contented myself with hating her, as the first cause of all my calamities, but now I denied her a reality and a being. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z
For this family to mourn is perhaps natural; but they have not really the first cause to do so. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z
Ah! he would not, he dared not, look into first causes. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z
The first cause of the movement was, of course, the anomalous position of the Anglican Church, which had become a province of the oligarchy officered by younger sons. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z
We have here again the absurdity of an infinite series of causative acts; and also, the absurdity of an infinite series of causes without a first cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
No one knows the first cause of this melting. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z
After a time, however, she came to symbolize, in his half-mystical perception of such things, the first cause of all that had happened. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z
Here we see the first cause of the soul's descent, viz. her desertion of a life wholly according to intellect, occultly signified by the separation of Demeter and Persephone. The Eleusinian Mysteries and Rites 2011-01-28T03:00:23.447Z
After her, forming a sort of sea-anchor, lolloped the derelict foremast which, by its buoyancy, was the first cause of all the mischief. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z
A first movement or nisus of cause is just as necessary a conception as first cause itself. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Certain effects invariably led him intuitively to first causes. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z
The first cause was that of Yang Jia, a Beijing resident who murdered six policemen in a Shanghai police station after being arrested and beaten for riding an unlicensed bicycle. Prominent Chinese Artist?s Studio Torn Down 2011-01-12T13:42:03Z
One of the first causes of the dissatisfaction of the New England States with the General Government was the purchase of Louisiana, by Mr. Jefferson, in 1803. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z
In this place the prophet presents us with the entire order of nature, beginning at the first cause, which is God. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z
The centre of a circle is a point equally distant from every point in the circumference: metaphysical necessity, the existence of a first cause, of time, of space. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The first cause of the fairies’ robes being white is evidently to be discerned here; and in Wales the ancient sentiment as to whiteness remains. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z
The condition first causes vision to blur or become foggy because the eye is unable to focus properly. Nepalese doc is God of Sight to poor 2010-03-21T04:02:00Z
His conception of Nous as the first cause of movement marks a great advance in the history of philosophical thought, for he thus placed spirit above matter. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli
But whatever may have been the first cause or causes of her diseased condition, it is probable there had been both action and reaction. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician
Now it must be supposed to have a connexion by a chain of sequents and antecedents with a first cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
Here is the opening section: 'According to the sacred writings of the Pundits of India, a certain immense spider was the origin, the first cause of all things. Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies
If this be so, and if this be the ultimate Reality,—then there are as many first principles, or first causes, as there are atoms. The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer
The insurrection of the Paraguay Indians is usually called the first cause of Pombal's hatred of the Jesuits. The New Conspiracy Against the Jesuits Detected and Briefly Exposed with a short account of their institute; and observations on the danger of systems of education independent of religion
Then the unfortunate mother exclaimed, in a tone of indescribable indignation and grief, "And it is that notary who is the first cause of all our sufferings." The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6
We come therefore at last to consider the connexion between the first sequent and the first antecedent, or the first cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
The physical first causes the mental, and the mental in turn brings about a change in the physical. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
I mused a little, and then observed, "You do not think, do you, that the first cause of this strange malady was some little affair of the heart?" Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I
I also wish to find the unknowable first cause and the eternal varieties and the limits of space. The Book of Gud
It was a new courthouse; there are people impatient to try even a new hearse; and this bade fair to be Arcadia’s first cause célèbre. Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus
It is plain, moreover, that will is efficient, essential, and first cause. A Review of Edwards's 2011-04-27T02:00:19.047Z
God is not a first cause, in our sense, that is, a first mechanical cause which existed before the world, and created it. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
They held that there are two first causes—the perfectly good and the perfectly evil. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross"
But I don't care particularly about that: what I want to know is the first cause. The King of Arcadia
This is his language: "God is the power, or first cause, nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon." Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence
The first cause is the most obvious; the second does not seem to exercise any injurious effect on the health of the neighborhood.... Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2
Again; some people think that the world is to be explained by what they call a "first cause." A Critical History of Greek Philosophy
What new truth did not at first cause division amongst them? The Silver Cross or The Carpenter of Nazareth
The first cause being his proposition to embark upon such a wild-goose chase, and the second, his intention to set off without providing himself with any means of defense. The Minute Boys of Boston
The first cause of trouble, after Philip's departure from the Netherlands, arose from the detention of the Spanish troops there. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2
Without publicly denying the god of their ancestors, men of intellect submitted to his mortal enemies, Science and Reason, and Abbé Gassendi relegated him gently to the far-distant abyss of first causes. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels
But whatever of diffidence or anxiety might take hold upon his own mind, Colvin Kershaw was not the man to display it in the presence of its first cause. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion
Death alone can end the miseries, of which the wretch I have sacrificed was the first cause. The New-York Weekly Magazine or Miscellaneous Repository. Alphonso and Marina
A blue chest, of the kind called "bench-chests," was the first cause of the quarrel. Black Forest Village Stories
A first cause of motion must therefore have come from the outside, from beyond the universe, which caused the movement. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring"
These first causes had developed individuality to such proportions that the hair of a Californian bristled when he was alluded to as a "Westerner," or even as a mere American. Ancestors A Novel
But the first cause of all this commotion remained in the forefront of the assemblage, angry and defiant. A Prince of Good Fellows
The first cause of the quarrel was found in the fact that these two places, having become as populous as towns of ordinary status, were without legal burying-grounds.  The Annals of Willenhall
He is distinguished from Dante eminently by his always dwelling on last causes instead of first causes. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V)
After the eleventh year of age, the first cause of death among school children is tuberculosis. Health Lessons Book 1
It rejects inquiry into first causes as being unphilosophical, and considers that phenomena alone can be dealt with by our finite minds. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
To the first cause of all being We must needs go back, and bring the Last result of our researches In a concrete form together. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine.
It follows, thirdly, that God is absolutely the first cause. The Philosophy of Spinoza
The first cause I shall mention, as contributing to this general effect, was the Reformation, which had just then taken place. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature
In over 4000 of these men the use of strong drink was the first cause of their crimes. Health Lessons Book 1
From that which is the first cause, not the object of sense existing everywhere in substance, not existing to our perception, without beginning or end, was produced the divine male. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition
The first causes of waste are evaporation and leaching. The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools
I have now, I think, explained the principal emotions and vacillations of the mind which are compounded of the three primary emotions, desire, joy, and sorrow, and have set them forth through their first causes. The Philosophy of Spinoza
Everything must be explained, but as the imagination was especially strong, it was easier to create a god as a first cause than to ascertain the development of the earth by scientific study. History of Human Society
The first cause of his apostasy from it remains uncertain. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion
The first cause does not operate so often in cattle as in horses. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle
What are the first causes of loss of manure? The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools
We must go farther back, to former lives, to find the first cause of such misfortunes. The Heart of the New Thought
Other philosophers of this school reasoned or speculated upon the probable first causes in the creation. History of Human Society
Scholium I.—I do not doubt but that to all who judge confusedly of things, and are not wont to inquire into first causes, it will be difficult to admit the demonstration of prop. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers."
It merely puts an intelligent force as first cause where the materialist postulates blind force. Elementary Theosophy
Thus, intellectual development was the first cause of social life in man, and Lubbock is certainly wrong in considering that the establishment of clans dates further back than the first beginning of civilization. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
Curiosity impelled him to seek the first cause of things; in religion he saw something that promised to explain the world to him, and to explain him to himself. History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems
There is established first a unity of God, and this unity is the first cause in the creation. History of Human Society
The historian is not called upon to investigate the first cause or final causes any more than the chemist or the naturalist. Introduction to the Study of History
I am the first cause of everything that exists in the East and in the West, in the North and in the South, above and below, in heaven and in hell. The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery
When Poor little Ada Queetie Departed this life, That was the first cause Of my seeking for God. A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce
His theory was, that air was the first cause of all things, and that the other elements of the universe were resolvable into it. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
We must believe in a cause of that cause, till we reach a first cause. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors
Even commerce and trade and manufacture, the gods of our economical politicians, are themselves perhaps but creatures; are themselves but effects, which as first causes we choose to worship. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7
Would the simple idea of the existence of a first cause, or creator of all things, be sufficient? The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 12, December, 1880
Hence we have it, first cause, God; second cause, Christ; effect, Christianity. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880
The apple tree, before this window, now so richly laden with fruit, tells not of its first cause. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880
Contemplating the first cause, the connections and dependencies in the moral state, his mind was filled with a sense of interminable duties. The History of Dartmouth College
It is not impossible that the motley character of Rome, of which all writers speak in one way or another, had its first cause in that second building of the city. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
This may be a remote first cause of the origin of the New England Women's Club, since it bears the same relation to that flourishing institution, that the native crab does to the grafted tree. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III
The pantheist has it as follows: first cause for the existence of Christianity, the fine organization of Christ. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880
Here you can find no aid, for nature tells us of no first cause. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 8, August, 1880
In your case, dear Mrs. Cheyne, one may safely lay the blame on the first cause.” Not Like Other Girls
I am aware that if we admit a first cause, the mind still craves to know whence it came and how it arose. Life of Charles Darwin
Recent studies of human conduct have greatly magnified the importance of early experience and have disclosed how often it is the first cause of morbid thinking and anti-social actions. Rural Problems of Today
His first cause for the existence of Christianity is the fine organization of Christ. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 9. September, 1880
In the mythical system the gods are not presented as creators or first causes. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880
In view of this fact it is well that Moses gives us at once the great first cause in the phrase, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880
“We won’t talk about that,” said the squire, seeming to forget the first cause of grievance. David Fleming's Forgiveness
It is true that the will itself is caused by other higher causes until we get to the first cause, but this does not form a necessary chain of causation. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
It was not so devoid of genius as would appear; the first cause was the difficulty in getting the best work "through." Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation
The first cause for us, is, therefore, the will, of which the first effect is volition. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
Well, then, my father was the first cause of my misfortunes, for he opposed my wishes in everything. Major Frank
The Parsee recognizes an overruling god, Ahura-Mazda, the creator of the universe; he believes that Nature with its remarkable laws could not have come into being without a great first cause. The Critic in the Orient
If one of them only has this differentia, then this one is composite and is not the first cause. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
You have been the guardian angel of my country; by your wise, temperate, and loyal conduct you have been the first cause of the plans which have been formed against the demon of the Continent. Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II
We might answer directly, and at once, that the oneness or unity of God is necessarily contained in "the very notion of a First Cause"--a first cause is not many causes, but one. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
It is useless to argue which race gave the first cause for retaliation; it had been give and take between them for many years. A Virginia Scout
The first cause lies in the elements of the body, when the actual qualities of those elements, moisture and cold and their two opposites, fail to harmonize. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
In the latter the first cause actually gives away something of itself and loses thereby from its fulness. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
They say: "As many facts and second causes as you please, but ask no questions about first causes; that is unscientific." The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880
Therefore, since this was the first cause of the greatness of the Indias, it is not remarkable that with its deficiency their commerce has declined. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 27 of 55 1636-37 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century
Our idea is, the first cause will be found to lie in some sentiment that reigned all powerful in his breast. My Recollections of Lord Byron
Not for the dishonor he admitted she wasn't guilty of, but for her misjudgment of him—when it came down to first causes, that was why she was being flown to her death. Thakur-na A Terran Empire story
Seek conscious union with the ultimate, the first cause, that which is the starting point of all things, whether in the universe or in yourself as the individual. The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science
There lay the beginnings of his ruin, his degradation, and the first cause of his deep duplicity. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
Then I remembered that wonderful something which Lize Jane had promised to bring in the covered dish,—that delicious mystery which had been the first cause of getting me into trouble. Aunt Madge's Story
That the high standard of his ideal was the first cause of injustice toward himself, a thousand proofs might be offered. My Recollections of Lord Byron
That is true, but it does not go down to first causes. A Dominie in Doubt
He has merely added one more link to his chain of phenomena, and the "first cause" remains as far off as ever. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
I, who had been the first cause of her misfortunes, sat on the bench as her judge. The Manxman A Novel - 1895
The first cause producing first swarms, the other second, third, &c. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained
But there must be some first cause from which the whole series is derived, a cause which is ultimate, sufficient to itself, and the responsible author of the world. The Approach to Philosophy
As part of a great evolutionary principle, which develops the race life at the expense of the individual, it might be consistent with the idea of a God—a first cause. The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility
And this in spite of continuous disclaimers that all search for a "first cause," or for a "cause of existence" is midsummer madness. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
The first cause may be called to life again. Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion
The one postulates, the other infers his first cause. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
The teleological proof argues that the world can owe its origin only to an intelligent first cause. The Approach to Philosophy
It is the first cause of all human actions, and the first principle of all deliberate motions. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
But it is none the less surprising that it was not recognised that both "a first cause" and an "ultimate cause of existence," are, strictly speaking, theistic questions. Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative
That I believe to have been the first cause of his early sterility; but others helped to determine the effect.  The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2]
Having formally acknowledged God as the great first cause, he immediately dropped the idea, applied the known laws of mechanics to the atoms, and deduced from them all vital phenomena. Fragments of science, V. 1-2
But in philosophy it has declined in importance, chiefly because it has been absorbed in arguments which deal with the kind of causality proper to a first cause or world-ground. The Approach to Philosophy
He is the first cause of both, and therefore he ought to be the last end of both. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Forgetfulness of God, contempt of good advice, love of dress, flattery, and pleasure were the first causes of misery, and these have brought me to my present state. The Basket of Flowers
An arch damsel is etymologically akin to an archbishop, both descending from the Greek prefix ἀρχι, from ἀρχή, a beginning, first cause. The Romance of Words (4th ed.)
And what is the first cause of the evil concealed under so deceitful an exterior? Fragments of science, V. 1-2
As Natal became the first cause of armed conflict between the British and the Boers, its then position in regard to the authorities at the Cape may as well be reviewed. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899
As in the fusion of two liquors, love does indeed at first cause a simmering and commotion, but eventually cools down and settles and becomes tranquil. Plutarch's Morals
But I really feel sorry for this mere young Daniel come to judgment when I think of the gauntlet which the wicked wits will make him run when he tries his first cause. The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
This is the first cause of the low standard of morals; the second is the want of an aristocracy, to set an example and give the tone to society. Diary in America, Series Two
The first cause of his reverses was a physical one; he could not endure the hard life in the college of Montaigu. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
The abbé had written a book about first causes. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
Hypnotic inquiry can thus lead to the recognition of the first causes in many hysterical states and where hypnotism is not the best adjusted tool, a certain dreamlike staring may be more effective. Psychotherapy
No one has explained the first cause of the development of an embryo. The Shadow World
This example I consider as the first cause of the demoralisation of the Americans. Diary in America, Series Two
The first cause of their fall in the social scale was the disapprobation of the humanists. John Lyly
The first cause is one which it is difficult to exaggerate. The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003
From which it follows that each individual mind requires to be regarded—if it is regarded at all—as of the nature of a first cause. Mind and Motion and Monism
At the head of the divine hierarchy it placed as first cause an abstraction, deified Time, the Zervan Akarana of the Avesta. The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
In regard to the first cause, it is known that at the time of the migration wages in this State were extremely low. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921
Yet, there is a first cause still, to whom I cannot here forbear to mention my obligations. A Simple Story
The first causes unnecessary pain and trouble, while the second procedure, the pumping, does exactly the reverse to what it is intended to do. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
For although these volitions are themselves of the nature of first causes, it is no contradiction to say that they are—at all events in large measure—determined by other and external causes. Mind and Motion and Monism
The first cause of mental disease and suffering, is not unfrequently found in the want of a proper supply of duly oxygenized blood. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
To commence, I must go back to first causes. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy
It is not now our humour to inquire too curiously about first causes or primal elements.  Obiter Dicta Second Series
His first cause of grief is the fate of his grandson Actæon, who, being changed into a stag, is torn to pieces by his own hounds. The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
God is the great first cause of all that is and that operates in the universe. The Ocean and its Wonders
In most cases, of illness from the first cause, bathing the feet, and some aperient drink to induce perspiration, are suitable remedies. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
I refer to that ambiguous and unbeautiful phantom, which has acquired for itself the name of "the absolute," or the parent or first cause of life. The Complex Vision
A first cause of difference, or of coldness, or of growing indifference between a married pair is often on the birth of the first child. The Dictator
The first cause is the ignorance of girls who are permitted to grow up and go out into the world innocently, unaware of the snares in which they are liable to become enmeshed. Society Its Origin and Development
The first cause of his failure was lack of perseverance. Pushing to the Front
I cannot account for the first cause of this trouble. The Girl in the Golden Atom
Many of the ancient peoples have entirely passed away; and the destruction of their forests, as we have seen in the previous chapter, was the first cause leading to their extinction. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation
The first cause was the necessity of co-operation to facilitate the joint business of connecting lines. Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
The wise man ought therefore to know not only those things which are the outcome and product of first causes, he must be possessed of the truth as to the first causes themselves. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
The first cause, awful and appalling, is seen in the precarious tenure of human life, during the violence of those political struggles which deluged the whole land with blood. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 1 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
In this series of complications where may we discern a first cause? The Necessity of Atheism
"The Atheist holds that the universe is an endless series of causes and effects ad infinitum, and therefore the idea of a first cause is an absurdity and a contradiction." Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
The first cause which led to his appearing at meetings was wrath at the ill-considered restoration of old buildings. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
But the first and highest science has to do with that which is unmoved and apart from matter; its function is with the eternal first causes of things. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
What people call God, Jehovah, Nature, according to my reasoning, is an astounding energy, a marvellous chemical process, created and controlled by some unknown, stupendous first cause, the origin of which man may never understand. The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure
The boy could not be found for some time, but a neighbour, observing a stone come from nowhere in particular and hit a cat, located the first cause in a ditch. Here are Ladies
The first cause of alienation between the Ostrogothic king and his Catholic subjects seems to have arisen in connection with the Jews. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
Consequently it is proper to Christ as man to be the Redeemer immediately; although the redemption may be ascribed to the whole Trinity as its first cause. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Moreover, this philosophy, which is the investigation of the first causes of things, is the most truly educative among the sciences. A Short History of Greek Philosophy
For that revelation presupposes a speaker and a spoken word; but it would be an impossible thought to make the fulness of all essence and the first cause of all things speak. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)
It can then see God, the source of life, the principle of being, the first cause of all good, the root of the soul. History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)
The first cause, mother, of my coming Was for mankind miscarrying,   To save them sore I sought; Therefore, mother make no mourning Since mankind, through my dying,   May thus to bliss be brought. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays
But of whatever good we possess the first cause by authority is God; and in this way no creature has any good of itself, according to 1 Cor. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Is it spontaneous—a first cause, or an effect? Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
In all his stories you will find this same concern with the inextricable movement of phenomena and noumena between event and event, this same curiosity as to first causes and ultimate effects. A Book of Prefaces
If the first cause cannot be conceived, its effects appeal to our every faculty. Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era
The first cause of the alienation in question is, that the two parties, so to speak, adopt different rules of evidence, and thus can hardly avoid arriving at different conclusions. What is Darwinism?
And therefore by God's power, which is the first cause of all things, it is possible for that which follows to remain, while that which is first is taken away. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The resonance against the occipital walls of the head cavities when the head tones are employed, at first causes a very marked irritation of the nerves of the head and ear. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
But none of these are supposed by it to be first causes or originating powers. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891
This question of the origination, the first causes and purposes, of the Mysteries is now sunk in hopeless obscurity, even were it of any importance to be known. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
While admitting that we know no more of the first cause than we do of a geometrical figure which is at once a circle and a square, yet we do know that it is actual. What is Darwinism?
The first cause may be found in an erroneous opinion concerning the difference between mental and written arithmetic. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions
Kissendas, the first cause of the present calamities, was brought before him; but the capricious tyrant, contrary to expectation, received him courteously, and told him he might return to Dacca. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
Suppose Y to be the imagined first cause and Z to be its effect. Hume (English Men of Letters Series)
If by miracle we understand either the suspension or subversion of the laws of nature, or the intervention of the first cause in certain particular cases, I could not concede it. Life of St. Francis of Assisi
Now hope regards eternal happiness as its last end, and the Divine assistance as the first cause leading to happiness. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
Still the great mystery remains unriddled; our researches have brought us no nearer the beginning, and the first cause of all continues unapproachable and undefinable as ever. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
XV.—But the first cause of his coming to Ireland, and the sequence of events which hurried him there, are not to be passed over in silence. Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
So much for the first cause of the increased expenditure. Liberalism and the Social Problem
Is mind the only real force and the first cause of all motion? Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Debate Index Second Edition
You have been the guardian angel of my country; by your wise, temperate, and loyal conduct, you have been the first cause of the plans which have been formed against the demon of the continent.... Types of Naval Officers Drawn from the History of the British Navy
The first cause of a Kingdom's thriving is the fruitfulness of the soil, to produce the necessaries and conveniences of life, not only sufficient for the inhabitants, but for exportation into other countries. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
The doctrine of creation alone explains how the universe subsists in presence of its first cause. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
Great first cause and Governor of all things; thou createst the world with thy bountiful hand, and sustained it by thy wisdom, by thy goodness, and by thy mercy! The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge
As for understanding first causes, the human race never had and never could; and as for a belief in heavenly revelations or in divine influences, all such tendencies ended in philosophic absurdity. Roads from Rome
Wherefore every act that proceeds from any passion, proceeds also from love as from a first cause: and so the other passions, which are proximate causes, are not superfluous. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
This is the first cause which, in this country, renders brick allowable. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character
The doctrine of the Creator can alone account to us for the universe, by bringing us back to its first cause. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism
Much moisture was found an excellent remedy for the enemy, though it might have been its first cause, as it could be best warded off by dousing with the once praised hot water tank. The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside
Therefore, if there be no first cause among efficient causes, there will be no ultimate, nor any intermediate cause. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Objection 1: It would seem that operation is not the proper and first cause of pleasure. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
The rational man becomes incredulous, because he sees that religion, far from rendering men happier, is the first cause of the greatest disorders, and of the permanent calamities with which the human race is afflicted. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
Such would find a first cause short of the Creator, the great original of all things and actions; and thus violate the soundest principles of philosophy. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar.
He had gone back to first causes in the one and he did the same in the other; his joy had reached out into eternity, and so did his misery. Pembroke A Novel
For good is attributed to God, as was said in the preceding article, inasmuch as all desired perfections flow from Him as from the first cause. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Wherefore the desire for such like separation is not the first cause of sorrow, whereas the craving for unity is. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
A cause produces its effect only when it is not interrupted in its action by other causes which are stronger, or which weaken the action of the first cause or render it useless. Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
This was the first cause of the union of the kingdoms. The Leading Facts of English History
Scientifically and philosophically He 21became the first cause of the world; He became the father of the human soul, and its judge; and what is more, its rest and its delight, and its desire. Is Life Worth Living?
Now there is no distinction between what flows from free will, and what is of predestination; as there is not distinction between what flows from a secondary cause and from a first cause. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Wherefore it rightly judges all things and sets them in order, because there can be no perfect and universal judgment that is not based on the first causes. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
"However recondite his book, the author certainly presents a theory of first causes which is well fitted to challenge the thoughtful readers' attention and to excite much reflection." Within the Temple of Isis
Doubtless the first cause of their flocking here was the sheltered warmth and the great numbers of berry-laden bushes, for there was no lack either of abundance or variety on the Christmas table. Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
First, then we would remark; that man is a creature of want, which is the first cause of all action. Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation
But if the intellect of the rational creature could not reach so far as to the first cause of things, the natural desire would remain void. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Yet it is not here that we must seek the first cause of this diversity, since man prepares himself, only inasmuch as his free-will is prepared by God. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
And not without some reason call I this the first cause of comfort. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens
Winthrop's first cause was not a very dignified one — it was something about a man's horse. Hills of the Shatemuc
This was among the first causes of distrust and dissatisfaction. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II.
God, therefore, is the first cause, Who moves causes both natural and voluntary. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
There was another phase of his fame which expressed an interest less inspired, though its first cause was none the less in the enthusiasm of the elect. Horace and His Influence
The term "first cause" is not a Scriptural expression.' The English Church in the Eighteenth Century
Winnie did not think much of it; except that it was his first cause, and it was gained; but that she was sure beforehand it would be. Hills of the Shatemuc
The want of bread, were it to produce a commencement of disorder, might ally itself to more permanent causes of discontent, and thus continue the effect beyond its first cause. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3
Other things than God are known because of God; not as if He were the first known object, but because He is the first cause of our faculty of knowledge. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
The first cause cannot be modified by the optician's skill, and is not important when the field of view is small. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction.
For getting sick, and requiring change of air, which is the first cause of my being here on my way to the great metropolis. Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
The boat sunk by the ice, at Cap Rouge, was a first cause. The Campaign of 1760 in Canada A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone
Now the first cause which makes it a solemn thing to die, is the instinctive cleaving of every thing that lives to its own existence. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series
Now there can be nothing caused in God, since He is the first cause. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Meneptah would be hedged about with prejudice against his first cause, and deterred by the prior right of Har-hat, in the second. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
It is the first cause of the kind attempted in Ravenna for these two hundred years; for, though they often separate, they assign a different motive. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals
The most trifling of our actions becomes often a first cause which produces an endless chain of effects—linked to each other—of the greatest importance. The Campaign of 1760 in Canada A Narrative Attributed to Chevalier Johnstone
"And do you believe, my dear, that you are the first cause of this trouble?" The Home in the Valley
And so some have supposed that although creation is the proper act of the universal cause, still some inferior cause acting by the power of the first cause, can create. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
His book, while making no concessions to the modern demand for vivacity, is one that no student of the War and its first causes can neglect. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-28
Or who can break the chain which limits men To act what is unchangeably forecast, Since the first cause gives motion to the last? The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05
Their knowledge of the first cause was very erroneous and confused. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
The first cause of our poverty then, is Absenteeism, which, by drawing six or seven millions out of the country, deprives our people of employment and means of life to that amount. The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
And, further still, the species of the angelic intellect, which are, as it were, the seminal types of corporeal forms, must be referred to God as the first cause. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
You, the first cause, the original author of my shame; you, to whose iniquitous avarice and vulgar ambition I fell a sacrifice, as much as I did to the profligacy and villany of Thomas Gourlay. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
If Nature overshadow with her wings her first causes, still the effects lie open before us, and experience and observation will often deduce from consciousness what we cannot from demonstration. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
They recognized a first cause, which governed what was visible. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century.
My salutation did not at first cause him to look up. Humanly Speaking
Hence it remains that nothing can create except God alone, Who is the first cause. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
We are obliged, Spencer owns, to refer the phenomenal world of law and order to a first cause. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
The atomic philosophy leads to a first cause. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life
Even commerce, and trade, and manufacture, the gods of our economical politicians, are themselves perhaps but creatures, are themselves but effects, which, as first causes, we choose to worship. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
He pleaded his first cause when he was but seventeen, with universal applause, which he maintained whilst he continued at the Bar. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
In all that follows, the power of mercy remains, and works indeed with even greater force; as the influence of the first cause is more intense than that of second causes. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
He says that this first cause is incomprehensible. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
The folio has, as it stands, inclinable.—I think the first reading better; the will dotes that attributes or gives the qualities which it affects; that first causes excellence, and then admires it. Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
If we lose the Grant it won't be the first cause or man that has been betrayed by the bottle. Trumps
X. Grotius, who had resolved to follow the Bar, pleaded his first cause at Delft in the year 1599, at his return from France. The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works
So likewise things known by God are contingent on account of their proximate causes, while the knowledge of God, which is the first cause, is necessary. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Yet he further says, when the question of attributing personality to this first cause is raised, that the choice is not between personality and something lower. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
Thou art the first cause of all the worlds thyself being eternal! The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
I mean, that it should be substantial, that it should be systematic, that it should rather strike at the first cause of prodigality and corrupt influence than attempt to follow them in all their effects. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)
The recurrence of a formidable rival in the North Sea was certainly not the first cause of the reaction. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
Since however all intermediate causes are inferior in power to the first cause, there are many things in the divine power, knowledge and will that are not included in the order of inferior causes. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
All the debate about first causes, absolute beings, and the rest, gives us no God such as our souls need. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
No reply was made, or a gentle one; but she was the first cause of contention among us. Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings
If we could advance a step farther, difficulties would still remain, as we should be still equally distant from the first cause. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
He pleaded his first cause before a judge who rode circuit over a territory now divided into three Congressional districts. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains
But God is the first cause of movement, and Himself is unmoved, as proved in Phys. viii, 49. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
There are comparatively few now who avow a system of philosophy making mindless atoms their first cause. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895
And now, why does man philosophize?—that is to say, why does he investigate the first causes and ultimate ends of things? Tragic Sense Of Life
He shows that with the Stoics, who were Pantheists, the Logos was regarded as a first cause; while with the Neoplatonists, who were Theists and Transcendentalists, it was a secondary cause. Christian Mysticism
Parjanya is the god that, in distinction from Indra as the first cause, actually pours down the rain-drops. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
But the effect of a first cause may be hindered by a defect of a secondary cause; as the effect of the motive power may be hindered by the weakness of the limb. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
Man is a dependent being in common with all other creatures, and all creatures depend upon a first cause. Notes on the Apocalypse
This was the first cause of all that malignant criticism which for so many years he carried on against Mr. Longfellow. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
The "natural union," though it is the first cause of all holiness and blessedness, does not make us holy and blessed, being common to good and bad alike. Christian Mysticism
Her fostering care has been the first cause, under Providence, of the uninterrupted happiness you have so long enjoyed. The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock
But, for a first cause of our wetting. At a Winter's Fire
He was only in his seventeenth year, when he pleaded his first cause. The Life of Hugo Grotius With Brief Minutes of the Civil, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of the Netherlands
Cranmer had a premonition of the troubled years of James VI. and of the Covenant, when this question of kneeling was the first cause of the Bishops’ wars.  John Knox and the Reformation
The first cause is the failing of their several havens, some by the desertion of the sea, and others from being choked up by the impetuosity of that boisterous and uncertain element. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 574, November 3, 1832 Title
In the first cause which was taken the plaintiff, as I said before, was not quite satisfied with the decision of his own local magistrate, and had therefore come here to restate his case. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876
The unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth was not the first cause of the evil by which he suffered. Political Pamphlets
Their searches after first causes were no more successful, however, than those of the naturalists who are endeavoring to ascertain who laid the cosmic egg. Romance of California Life
In this frame of mind we easily drifted into speculation on first causes. The Siege of Kimberley
The first cause of his disappointment was the fact that the young man wore a colored shirt and no vest, and a yellow leather belt. The Captain's Toll-Gate
Erroneous ideas of the church The first cause to which I call attention is an erroneous conception of the church itself. The Last Reformation
But however much they might now regret the first cause, the effect was growing more irresistible with every passing hour. Mary Minds Her Business
On this ground it is said that the first cause is in all things, and that there is nothing without it. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
The cosmological argument, or that one which proceeds after the posteriori fashion, from the present existence of the world as an effect, to the necessary existence of some ultimate and eternal first cause. In His Image
I shall not go through them, and shall leave it to the court to say whether, after they shall have disposed of the first cause, there is any thing left. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style
Never allow yourself to speak a word, and at the first cause of anxiety, run for it. The Man Who Laughs
It was the first cause of the kind that ever was tried in this colony, where morality does not appear to be so highly appreciated as in some countries of Europe. A Voyage Round the World, Volume I Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832
His devotion to her did not at first cause them any wonderment. Paul Faber, Surgeon
But now I see that this very likeness of nature was the first cause of their lack of agreement. Red Axe
The author has shewn us that design in all the works of nature, which necessarily leads us to the knowledge of its first cause. The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V.
I shall give you the particulars of the last Work of this kind which lately happend, & which is not yet settled; Plunder being the first cause. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783
The first cause, therefore, of the Maccabean struggle was the apostasy of certain of the Jews themselves. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism
In his Philosophy of Necessity, published in 1841, he maintained that the only reality is the Great Unknown which we name God, that all natural laws are actions of the first cause. George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy
In brief, he holds the first cause to be tainted food, but secondary or contributory causes may be even more potent in developing the disease. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
The first cause of legitimate separation is a vitiated state of mind, n. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
Interesting would be a record of the germs and first causes of all the greatest poets' conceptions! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861
In the days of the American Revolution, the first cause of complaint was, that a whole people were taxed but not represented. Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887
I believe," returned Doctor Manette, "that there had been a strong and extraordinary revival of the train of thought and remembrance that was the first cause of the malady. A Tale of Two Cities
Meanwhile we have had much discussion as to the first cause of the difficulty. Scott's Last Expedition Volume I
The reader will remember that the first cause of uneasiness was given to the prisoner by the rage of Jacob when Gryphus crushed the first bulb. The Black Tulip
My sister's having found a friend, a lady she has told me of and made me rather anxious about, was the first cause of my coming away from home. Little Dorrit
While the popes established in Italy their freedom and dominion, the images, the first cause of their revolt, were restored in the Eastern empire. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5
The defence of their founder is the first cause, which in every age has exercised the zeal and industry of the civilians. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
Not caring to venture within range of such missles again, the boy discreetly sent in his stead the first cause of the interruption, who now presented herself at the door. The Old Curiosity Shop
Before this happened, to try every way   Of remedy the Lydian king was bent;   And thither, where Alcestes' army lay,   Me, the first cause of all the mischief, sent. Orlando Furioso
Jocularly I suggested the beastly heat as the first cause. The Shadow Line; a confession
Having recognised that there are no phenomena of which the first cause is still accessible, science has resumed the examination of her ancient certitudes, and has proved their fragility. The Psychology of Revolution
In addition to this first cause of an exaggerated expenditure there is another not less imperative—the necessity of voting all grants for local purposes. The Crowd; study of the popular mind
Of course she could not help the first cause; but if the other two causes had not existed, that would have been of little consequence; she would only have to be a little careful. At the Back of the North Wind
This God is not merely the "first cause." George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
It shows what a low ideal the Jews had of the great first cause, from which the moral and material world of thought and action were evolved. The Woman's Bible
He seemed to have forgotten the untoward effect of Teddy's disappearance in the peculiar humiliation of its first cause. Mr. Justice Raffles
The first cause of our felicity is sometimes mingled with the second, which is serviceable in procuring it. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I
The first cause is the difference in the propelling efficiency of the upper and lower blades when in any other position than horizontal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860
When scientific methods substitute for a first cause a mere resultant effect, all primary principles disappear in their intermediates. Life: Its True Genesis
Is there not a first cause, a being who set all these atoms in motion—in short, a God? Initiation into Philosophy
I know that he was the first cause of your ruin; and that, but for him, your lot in life might have been very different. Henry Dunbar A Novel
Who was his opponent in the first cause he tried? Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
Half the untimely deaths you hear of might be traced home to the brandy bottle, if a man had only the curiosity to look into first causes. The Golden Calf
He said to himself that he, Ayrton, was the first cause of these disasters, since his old companion, Harvey, had only carried out Ayrton’s projects; and a feeling of horror came over him. The Mysterious Island
He was twenty-six when he pleaded his first cause. The Life of Cicero Volume One
The enemy afterwards confessed that the injury thus done was the first cause of his misfortunes. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I
Of course, now that the first cause of all the trouble is removed, the mental health may be thoroughly restored. The Heavenly Twins
The primary one is "beginning or first cause," and this runs through all its various uses. Ethics
Everyone who postulates a first cause begins with the universal intelligence. Freedom Talks No. II
We grow up with our conditions, and you cannot imagine of a first cause. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
The first cause of his sorrow is Recanati: the intellect, capable of the universe, feels itself oppressed in an obscure village, cruel to the body and deadly to the spirit…. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions
From the very beginning, the first cause of Roman literature will be found to have been a view to utility and not to the satisfaction of an impulsive feeling. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
There it buries itself, and at first causes an itching not unpleasant. Wanderings in South America
The discovery of the precious metal on his estate was the first cause of his financial embarrassment. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway
And as you cannot think of a lost effect, you cannot think of a first cause; it is not thinkable by the human mind. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
But the first cause has no origin; for all things spring from the first cause: itself, from nothing. De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
In this system, nature, eternal and universal, is considered as the first cause, which produces intelligence and all the other principles of knowledge and existence. Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
They are all alike, these humanitarian lovers of first causes. Old Calabria
Without these second causes, the first cause, at least in most countries, would provide for none of our wants. Good Sense
God is the power, or first cause; nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon. Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest
That indeed would not be a first cause which derived its beginning from anything else; and if it has no beginning, it never ceases to be. De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
They strike the imagination of the vulgar; as order everywhere astonishes, when we cannot easily ascend to first causes. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
Throughout life he was a zealous reader of the Bible, a firm and even ascetic believer, forever preoccupied, in childlike simplicity of soul, with first causes. Old Calabria
The excess of their abundance is the first cause of their poverty; the instability of their government, the second. The Bushman — Life in a New Country
Under such a condition Neptune makes playthings which possibly in some future age may puzzle men who happen to ponder seriously on first causes. My Tropic Isle
For the first cause, if extinct, will neither itself be born again from aught else, nor will it create aught else from itself, if indeed all things must of necessity originate from the first cause. De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
This was the first cause of the war that Corinth had against the Athenians, viz., that they had fought against them with the Corcyraeans in time of treaty. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Is not God the first cause of matter as well as of mind?  Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
The first cause of his being thus called in question was the envy of his rival preachers, whose fame was eclipsed by his superior talents. Lives of the Necromancers
They must be limited in physics to what is necessary to prevent gross ignorance or stupid superstition, and must keep to facts, without reasonings which tend directly or indirectly to first causes. World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France
Thus it is that the first cause of motion is derived from that which is in its nature self-moving; but this can neither be born nor die. De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream
That I doubt not: but I was not baptized into the name of the first cause Discipline and Other Sermons
The first cause of these igneous phenomena lies at immense depths below the secondary rocks, in the primitive formations: the rains and the decomposition of atmospheric water act only a secondary part. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
One day she sees Florez, the first cause of all her misfortunes, pass the window, and with thoughts bent on revenge sends him a billet, which he carries to his master. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
It was thereby compelled to assume two kinds of freedom, one cosmological, of the first cause, and the other moral and theological, of human will. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature
None of the illustrious Ionians reached anything higher, than that the first cause of all things must be intelligent. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations
Ultimately there can be only one first cause which is the universal mind, but because it is universal it cannot, as universal, act on the plane of the individual and particular. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
The evils of each particular kind of government are very clearly and elegantly displayed, and, from their secondary causes, very rationally deduced; but the first cause lies still in its ancient obscurity. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons
For in this dialogue, all the divine genera proceed in order from the first cause, and evince their mutual suspension from each other. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
The Patricians and Plebeians: first causes of strife between them. Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D.
It seems almost like the speculations of our own time, when philosophers seek to find the first cause in impersonal Force, or infinite Energy. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations
Thus used in its right order, the intellect becomes the handmaid of that more interior power within us which manipulates the unseen substance of all things, and which we may call relative first cause. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
The first cause was the rise of sects within the Synagogue. Judaism
Such things as first causes and piquant details he avoided, as tending to prolong the telling excessively, thus keeping him from the perusal of his cowboy stories. The Prince and Betty
"Ah! when you ask me that, you get to the first cause of the trouble," she answered. Ideala
But the foundation principle of his philosophy was that water is the first cause of all things—the explanation, of the origin of the universe. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
The thought-image or ideal pattern of a thing is the first cause relatively to that thing; it is the substance of that thing untrammelled, by any antecedent conditions. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
The conductor seemed unwilling to go into first causes. Uneasy Money
My stricken employer was lying on his back, staring at the ceiling, and our entrance did not at first cause him to change this position. The Little Nugget
The first cause of these mental lapses is to be found in some habit of levity, acquired young, and not easily got rid of, but still not hopeless. Ideala
The idea of elevating an abstraction into a great first cause is certainly puerile, nor is it easy to understand his meaning, other than that the abstract has a higher significance than the concrete. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
There is no difference in kind between the operation of first cause in the universal and in the particular, the difference is only a difference of scale, but the power itself is identical. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental Science
In most cases of illness from the first cause, bathing the feet, and some aperient drink to induce perspiration, are suitable remedies. American Woman's Home
Science can apparently give no reason for assuming that the first cause, and that which gives the law to development, is a blind force rather than an archetypal idea. Lectures and Essays
But the first cause may be anticipated by wise marriage laws.... A Modern Utopia
Avoid envy which was the first cause of the loss of mankind. The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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