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next article, quite independently will be, in
either case, dutiable or free.
For we may assume that those who make up the box know nothing about
our American duties. Thus for those first
two toys, these cases may be assumed to be
equally possible
DD
DF
FD
FF
So on for the third and the following; and
so one shall have 2¹⁰, or 1024, different
possible constitutions of the contents of
the boxes. If you suppose these to be equally
possible, you will make an approach to
the only consistent principle, that of making
all constitutions of the universe equally
possible. You will fall short of doing
so, only because you have considered only
ten different grades instead of making
an infinite number of them. Were that done,