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pursued, it will lead to the truth at last.
This is certainly very weak justification;
and were it possible to dispense with
this method of reasoning, I would certainly
not recommend it. But the strong point
of it is that it is indispensable. It goes upon
the roughest kind of information, upon
merely negative information; but that
is the only information we can have
concerning the great majority of
subjects.

I find myself introduced to a
man without any previous warning.
Now if I knew that he had married his
grandmother and had subsequently buried