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| | John Stuart Mill [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Mill cannot avail himself of the theory that the law of universal causation is an intuition of reason or an a priori and transcendental principle. |
| | As the sphere widens, this unscientific methods becomes less and less liable to mislead; and the most universal class of truths, the law of causation, for instance, and the principles of number and geometry, are duly and satisfactorily proved by that method alone, nor are they susceptible of any other proof. |
| | The induction given by such evidence as there is, points to the creation, not indeed of the universe, but of the present order of it, by an Intelligent Mind, whose power over the materials was not absolute, whose love for his creatures was not his sole actuating inducement, but who nevertheless, desired their good. |
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