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How can the sun act on the earth which is over ninety millions of miles off? Or how can one particle of matter act on another particle without getting outside; of itself, though the distance between them be made as small as possible ? For even if the two particles are brought in contact, the one is still outside of the other and distinct from it ; so that we still have the inex- plicable phenomenon of act to in dixtans. This is the insolu- ble problem which is perpetually recurrent in metaphysi...cs, be- sides influencing largely most of the theoretical physical sci- ence of our own day. When I throw a stone into the air, what is that which is communicated to it, by virtue of which it con- tinues to fly after it has left the hand, in spite of the retarding action of gravity which soon brings it again to rest ? Does the muscular force of my body extend for a considerable dis- 1-2 178 THE IDEA OF CAUSE. tance outside of that body, and thus sustain the stone in its flight ? Motion is certainly communicated to the stone ; but v that is the effect produced, and not the cause.
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