Biblical Repertory, Vol. 4: No. III (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Biblical Repertory, Vol. 4: No. III

When two events succeed each other, or in other words, when the perception of the one succeeds the perception of the other, m cm consciousness if we imagine to ourselves that the second could not have existed, had not the first preceded it, we are immediately struck with the idea of a cause. Whence do we obtain it? Is it given to us with the perception its'clfot' these events. 7 Locke and all the adherents of his analysis of the human faculties, 111 answering this ques tion in the affirmative, never imagined, until Hume, that their opinion tended to destroy the certainty of the axiom, that every event must have a_cause to deprive it of its charac teristics of necessity and universality, and thus destroy, in its very foundation, allahuman knowledge, which rests on its ap plication. Hume distinguished between necessary connexion.

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