CHAPTER V. _Of the Law of Universal Causation.

§ 1. The universal law of successive phenomena is the Law of Causation 360

2. --_i.e._ the law that every consequent has an invariable antecedent 363

3. The cause of a phenomenon is the assemblage of its conditions 365

4. The distinction of agent and patient illusory 373

5. The cause is not the invariable antecedent, but the _unconditional_ invariable antecedent 375

6. Can a cause be simultaneous with its effect? 380

7. Idea of a Permanent Cause, or original natural agent 383

8. Uniformities of coexistence between effects of different permanent causes, are not laws 386

9. Doctrine that volition is an efficient cause, examined 387