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If they seek to attract it by eccentricity, to deceive it by superficial qualities, or take advantage of it by thoughtless and facile production, they necessarily degrade themselves and it together, and have no right to complain afterwards that it will not acknowledge better-grounded claims.
Possible chicken means actual egg plus actual sitting hen, or incubator, or what not. As the actual conditions approach completeness the chicken becomes a better-and- better-grounded possibility. When the conditions are entirely complete, it ceases to be a possibility, and turns into an actual fact. Let us apply this notion to the salvation of the world.
To mention only a few examples of men who would scarcely be thought of in a professorial career, Schiller was Professor of History in Jena, Rückert Professor in Berlin, Uhland in Tübingen. In nothing can Germany manifest a better-grounded feeling of national pride than in this, its university system.
What does it pragmatically mean to say that this is possible? It means that some of the conditions of the world's deliverance do actually exist. The more of them there are existent, the fewer preventing conditions you can find, the better-grounded is the salvation's possibility, the more PROBABLE does the fact of the deliverance become. So much for our preliminary look at possibility.
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