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Of course, the great cause of this condition is man's evil heart of alienation, the spirit of slumber but we may find proximate and special causes. There is the indifference springing from the absorbing interests of the present. A man has only a certain quantity of interest to put forth. If he expends it all on small things, he has none for great.
Studying the facts and phenomena in reference to proximate causes, and endeavoring to trace back the series of cause and effect as far as possible, Darwin's aim and processes are strictly scientific, and his endeavor, whether successful or futile, must be regarded as a legitimate attempt to extend the domain of natural or physical science.
The question in each case is whether the actual choice, or, in other words, the actually contemplated result, was near enough to the remoter result complained of to throw the peril of it upon the actor. Many of the cases which have been put thus far are cases where the proximate cause of the loss was intended to be produced by the defendant.
In these cases we say that it is due to sameness of substance in same circumstances. The most cursory reflection upon our actions will show us that it is no more possible for living action to have more than one set of proximate consequents at any given time than for oxygen and hydrogen when mixed in the proportions proper for the formation of water.
Mystified more than ever by this new and unknown expression, of which he could get no explanation, the inquirer now returned to his Jansenist friend to demand of him if he admitted it. “Do you admit the proximate power?” was all that he could say to him. He had charged his memory carefully with the expression, all the more that he did not understand it.
In that phase in which the territory is the central feature of the situation, the struggle for existence is in operation in its acutest form; all the congenital and acquired capacities of the bird pugnacity, song, capacity to utilise in later phases the experience gained in prior phases, all these are organised to subserve an end a proximate end which in its simplest terms may be described as "isolation."
If he calls this power proximate power, he is a Thomist, and yet a Catholic; if not, he is a Jansenist, and therefore a heretic.’ ‘He calls it,’ said I, ‘neither the one nor the other.’ ‘He is a heretic then,’ said he; ‘ask these good fathers.’ It was unnecessary to appeal to them, for already they had assented by a nod of their heads.
Augustus Bedlo, a gentleman whose amiable manners and many virtues have long endeared him to the citizens of Charlottesville. "Mr. B., for some years past, has been subject to neuralgia, which has often threatened to terminate fatally; but this can be regarded only as the mediate cause of his decease. The proximate cause was one of especial singularity.
She must exert herself to the utmost to rescue the workmen from a situation which constitutes a real proximate occasion of sin for them, a situation which makes it morally impossible for them to fulfill their duties as Christians." "The Church is bound to interfere 'ex caritate," as these workmen are in extreme need and cannot help themselves.
What he saw right to do he would have done, regardless of proximate consequences. "The ordinary tests of generosity are very defective. As rightly measured, generosity is great in proportion to the amount of self-denial entailed; and where ample means are possessed, large gifts often entail no self-denial.
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