Historical Views of Causation. Four Vital Humors. Historically, there have been many efforts to account for the occurrence of disease outcomes. Religions often attributed disease outbreaks or other misfortunes to divine retribution - punishment for mankind's sins.
Copy and paste [edit]. The term copy-and-paste refers to the popular, simple method of reproducing text or other data from a source to a destination. It differs from cut and paste in that the original source text or data does not get deleted or removed.
The term  cut and paste  comes from the traditional practice in manuscript-editings whereby people would literally cut paragraphs from a page with scissors and physically paste them onto another page. This practice remained standard into the 1980s.