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found its extreme expression in Newtonian physics. Sir Edmund
Whittaker writes in Space and Spirit (p. 86):
Newtonianism, like Aristotelianism, attempts to
understand the world by tracing the connection of events
with one another; and this is effected by ordering our
experiences according to the category of cause and
effect, discovering for every phenomenon its determining
agents or antecedents. The affirmation that this
connection is all-embracing, that no event happens
without a cause, is the postulate of causality .
The extreme visual bias of this notion of cause obtrudes
very incongruously in an electric and simultaneous world. Sir
Edmund adds (p. 87), by way of contrast: