Note 450 — Chapter IX · SPECIAL PROVIDENCE AND PRAYER.
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By "causes" is here meant nothing more than all the antecedent conditions. The statement makes no real distinction between "causes" and "conditions." "We can not predicate of any physical agency that it is abstractedly the cause of another." "Causation is the will of God."—Grove, "Correlation and Conservation of Forces," pp. 15, 199.