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the nearest cause of its own produc- 

 tion, it is not the primary one; it is 

 itself the result, not of a cause to be 

 found in the material world, but of a 

 foreign interference in the mechanical 

 causality, and points therefore to a 

 supernatural ground which, by a closer 

 investigation, will be found identical 

 with a living will. The will feels the 

 want of other things than those which 

 natural forces can spontaneously pro- 

 duce. Natural products act as incen,- 

 tives on the will, spur it to break 

 through mechanical causality so that 

 physical laws by a judicious guidance 

 may be forced to produce artificial 

 products that better satisfy the desires 

 of the will. If natural laws could com- 

 prehend and judge these things, they 

 would consider them all as miracles, 

 whereas, from the point of view of the 

 will, they are so much the more natural 

 as they are exact expressions of the 

 needs and desires of the will. 



But not only the order of cause and 

 effect, even the tie between the two is 



