But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily, ...every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in g...eneral, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »