The wife caught a cold, but was denied damages since her loss was neither an «immediate and necessary effect of the breach nor in the contemplation of the parties». (newlawjournal.co.uk)
On July 2, 1866, Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of natural selection, wrote to Charles Darwin to lament how he had been «so repeatedly struck by the utter inability of numbers of intelligent persons to see clearly or at all, the self acting & necessary effects of Nat Selection, that I am led to conclude that the term itself & your mode of illustrating it, however clear & beautiful to many of us are yet not the best adapted to impress it on the general naturalist public.» (scientificamerican.com)
(Insofar as the present has a necessary effect upon the future, those relations are a part of the present.) (religion-online.org)