...we are never able in a single instance, to discover any power, or necessary connexion ; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other." Phil. Essays, 2d Ed. 1750, Es. vii. p. 103. See other passages of the Essays quoted and examined by...

...instance, to discover any The Doctrine of Cansation. 11 power, or necessary connexion and quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an inflexible consequence of the other. We only find that the one does, in fact, follow the other.'* This...