He goes on to declare that "The fact of evolution-or, which is the same thing, the fact of continuity in natural causation-has now been undoubtedly proved in many departments of nature," and that, in particular, "throughout the range of inorganic nature" it is "a demonstrated fact."
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
Here we are thrown back from the question of Order to that of causation.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
Benton's error, however, was natural; like most other men he was unable fully to realize that hardly any phenomenon, even the most simple, can be said to spring from one cause only, and not from a complex and interwoven tissue of causation-and a panic is one of the least simple and most complex of mercantile phenomena.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt