APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
It is notorious that, to the unthinking mass of mankind, nine-tenths of the facts of life do not suggest the relation of cause,and effect; and tney practically deny the txistence of any such relation by attributing them to chance. Few gamblers but would stare if they were told that the falling of a die on a particular face is as much the effect of a definite cause as the fact of its falling; it is a proverb that ‘‘the wind bloweth where it listeth” ; and even thoughtful men usually receive with surprise the suggestion , that the form of the crest of every wave that breaks, 1 wind driven on the sea-shore, and the direction of* every particle of foam that flies before the gale, are the exact effects of definite causes; and, as such, must be capable of being determined, deductively, from the laws of motion and the properties of air and water. So again, there are large numbers of highly intelligent persons , who rather pride themselves on their fixed belief that our volitions have no cause; or that the will causes itself, which is either the same thing, or a contradiction in terms.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1931, Page 4
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197APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 30 December 1931, Page 4
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