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but that as to what connects cause and effect, as to 
what is the reason, the final cause, or even the causa 
causans, of any phenomenon, we know not more 
but less than ever; for those laws or customs which 
seem to us simplest (‘endosmose,’ for instance, or 
“ oravitation”), are just the most inexplicable, logi- 
cally unexpected, seemingly arbitrary, certainly 
supernatural—miraculous, if you will; for no natural 
and physical cause whatsoever can be assigned for 
them; while if anyone shall argue against their 
being miraculous and supernatural on the ground of 
their being so common, I can only answer, that of all 
absurd and illogical arguments, this is the most so. 
For what has the number of times which the miracle 
occurs to do with the question, save to increase the 
wonder? Which is more strange, that an inexpli- 
cable and unfathomable thing should occur once and 
for all, or that it should occur a million times every 
day all the world over ? 
Let those, however, who are too proud to wonder, 
do as seems good to them. Their want of wonder 
will not help them toward the required explanation : 
