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He looked discouraged.Crandalls too cagy to give out anything he doesn’t want us to know, Connell. You might as well know, the man’s got one of the finest legal brains I’ve ever known. Supra,p. 137. Didnt anybody ask you and Joey questions about her? Get what? Im asking you if voices told Annie to run off again. Carlo Zannetti turned out to be a rotund little man with a small mustache that curled upward at either end, giving the impression that he was perpetually smiling. He was not, as Id mistakenly surmised, Italian. That is to say, his grandfather had been born in Italy, yes, but both his parents and he himself had been born in Philadelphia, where he still lived. The Carlo was a tribute to the grandfather he’d never met; Zannetti was called “Charlie by everyone he knew. How would he know? Dont be silly, Lester. It might at first appear that the Method of Concomitant Variations assumes a new axiom, or law of causation in general, namely, that every modification of the cause is followed by a change in the effect. And it does usually happen that when a phenomenon A causes a phenomenona, any variation in the quantity or in the various relations of A, is uniformly followed by a variation in the quantity or relations of a. To take a familiar instance, that of gravitation. The sun causes a certain tendency to motion in the earth; here we have cause and effect; but that tendency is toward the sun, and therefore varies in direction as the sun varies in the relation of position; and, moreover, the tendency varies in intensity, in a certain numerical correspondence to the suns distance from the earth, that is, according to another relation of the sun. Thus we see that there is notonly an invariable connection between the sun and the earth’s gravitation, but that two of the relations of the sun, its position with respect to the earth and its distance from the earth, are invariably connected as antecedents with the quantity and direction of the earth’s gravitation. The cause of the earth’s gravitating at all, is simply the sun; but the cause of its gravitating with a given intensity and in a given direction, is the existence of the sun in a given direction and at a given distance. It is not strange that a modified cause, which is in truth a different cause, shouldproduce a different effect. So what did you do? Kirby was right in the middle of it. He was on his knees, holding his arm around a girls shoulders, and he was red in the face and swearing. He said, as I came up: Damn that doctor! If this girl has a bad pump I’ll crucify him. One of you get some water, quick. And a drink of whiskey. I said Id gathered that. And then: D’ya think the maid getting killed in that alley has anything to do with Mrs. Wendel’s business? Can you see a connection, Chief? Attempted murder?What are you talking about? 38 It is proper to consider whether the adoption of this theory as a scientific truth, involving as it does a change in the conception hitherto entertained of the most general physical agencies, requires any modification in the view I have taken of Causation as a law of nature. As it appears to me, none whatever. The manifestations which the theory regards as modes of motion, are as much distinct and separate phenomena when referred to a single force, as when attributed to several. Whether the phenomenon is called a transformation of force or the generation of one, it has its own set or sets of antecedents, with which it is connected by invariable and unconditional sequence; and that set, or those sets, of antecedents are its cause. The relation of the Conservation theory to the principle of Causation is discussed in much detail, and very instructively, by Professor Bain, in the second volume of his Logic. The chief practical conclusion drawn by him, bearing on Causation, is, that we must distinguish in the assemblage of conditions which constitutes the Cause of a phenomenon, two elements: one, the presence of a force; the other, the collocation or position of objects which is required in order that the force may undergo the particular transmutation which constitutes the phenomenon. Now, it might always have been said with acknowledged correctness, that a force and a collocation were both of them necessary to produce any phenomenon. The law of causation is, that change can only be produced by change. Along with any number of stationary antecedents, which are collocations, there must be at least one changing antecedent, which is a force. To produce a bonfire, there must not only be fuel, and air, and a spark, which are collocations, but chemical action between the air and the materials, which is a force. To grind corn, there must be a certain collocation of the parts composing a mill, relatively to one another and to the corn; but there must also be the gravitation of water, or the motion of wind, to supply a force. But as the force in these cases was regarded as a property of the objects in which it is embodied, it seemed tautology to say that there must be the collocationand the force. As the collocation must be a collocation of objects possessing the force-giving property, the collocation, so understood, included the force. Wendel turned and I could see blood pouring from his nose. I turned also, and Crandall said:Hagh! I was right. Hold them, Barney, and Ill call the police. Lester and Hazel were sitting on the davenport and Lester looked a little mussed. I figured Hazel had probably been holding him in her lap; she was big enough to do the deed comfortably. He looked relieved when he saw us and she looked about half mad. I poured her three Martinis, as fast as she could get them down, then sat down by her and said:Did you hear about the little stunt Wendel and I pulled last night on his old lady? That was funny. To prove it I laughed. All right, Berkeley said. Lets get him in..