It is as true today as when Dean Prosser said it over 50 years ago that proximate cause remains a tangle and jungle, a palace of mirrors and a maze.

• 正如50年前的学者Prosser教授感叹那样，近因仍然是一团乱麻和一堆荆棘，一个令人眼花缭乱、扑朔迷离的领域。