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which is the cause of that result. Suppose for instance one man strikes another man. An individual sees the blow, but does not see any further.' He sees only the result, the blow. Now that result was the result of a quatrelor of something which was of such a nature as to produce a blow, and the result of that blow is that the one struck has been knocked down. How do we see the past ?
Suppose there is only the blood which the blow caused to flow to be seen, the clairvoyant can see the blow, but it had already passed away, it couli not be seen as though it had not already taken place. In this way he has seen the cause. As soon as the cause is set in motion, 80 soon as it is potential so far as the fas:ult is concerned, it does not cease to be a causa. As soon as the calls is set in motion it is not annihilated. A cause can tever be destroyed.
We will take for example this piece of paper. The cause of this paper was not paper. Formerly all these little particles which go to make this paper were in many different conditions. Some of them were in one condition, and other particles were in other conditions. Different causes were brought to hear upon them and all these varied little particles hecame a piece of paper, such as we can see with ont physical eyes. The combination of the original molectiles, appears to us in a symetrical form, as a
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