Abstract

That which expresses itself externally, always precedes itself. One action always nudges another. This is the particular human activity which permits men to think in causal terms. This activity reveals to man the temporal succession of events as causally connected. But that which is temporally prior is not in every case thought of as a Why for that which comes later. Nor is that which is temporally later always seen as an effect of the earlier. So it is with the day following the night and the night, the day. The day is never thought of as the cause of the night, although it regularly precedes the latter.