When
Jesus declared, of the carnal-minded men of that day, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do," he showed his unerring sense of cause and effect.
Ben Jonson
undoubtedly intended one thing and a very grim one, when he said famine ends famine, but the Christian metaphysician, if privileged to so so, may find in his words something diametrically opposite to his meaning—may find a scientific fact based upon divine Principle.