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precedes the effect in time, it is evident that the proof is
not essentially affected. Moreover, the argument does not
require that all chains of causation, when traced
backward, should terminate on the same ultimate point:
in other words, it does not lead necessarily to the
conclusion that the universe acquired its entire stock-in-
trade in a single consignment at the Creation, and that it
has received nothing since. Thus it does not warrant the
view, so common among the deistic Newtonians of the
eighteenth century, that the system of the world is
absolutely closed and has developed according to purely
mechanical laws, so that all the events of history must
have been implicit in its specification at the primeval
instant. On the contrary, the recent trend of physical
thought (as will be evident from what has been said
about the principle of causality) is in favor of the view