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And a fortiori, man, with his intellectual and moral capacities, could not arise upon this planet without a higher agency than any lodged in that nature which is the object of our present experience. This kind of miracle, as deduced by our reason, and not witnessed experimentally, or drawn from any past records, we call an a priori miracle.
The amusement derived from his company is thus seen to be distinctly paramount to all other considerations. No one cares so heartily to own a dog which has been the property of another; a fortiori of a child. It is clearly, then, not as a necessity that the babe is adopted.
The birth of a "species" has often been compared with that of an "individual." A fortiori must this be the case with the origin of a "species." Moreover, the analogy between a "species" and an "individual" is a very incomplete one. The word "individual" denotes a concrete whole with a real, separate, and distinct existence.
So you'll consider her as a married woman, though she is but a child it was a rash act, between you and I for Connal's not grown up a likely lad for the girl to fancy; but that's neither here nor there: no, my word is passed when half drunk, may be but no matter it must be kept sober drunk or sober, a gentleman must keep his word a fortiori a king a fortiori King Corny.
In a dream our individuality is not shut up within itself; it envelops, so to speak, its surroundings; it is the landscape, and all that it contains, ourselves included. But if our imagination is not our own, if it is impersonal, then personality is but a special and limited case of its general functions. A fortiori it would be the same for thought.
First, That, in order to prevent all confusion in disputes, it may stand as much distinguished for ever, from every other species of argument as the Argumentum ad Verecundiam, ex Absurdo, ex Fortiori, or any other argument whatsoever: And, secondly, That it may be said by my children's children, when my head is laid to rest, that their learn'd grandfather's head had been busied to as much purpose once, as other people's; That he had invented a name, and generously thrown it into the Treasury of the Ars Logica, for one of the most unanswerable arguments in the whole science.
A sane man is not to be falsely imprisoned by a lunatic without full compensation from the lunatic or his estate: a fortiori, he is not to be so imprisoned by a mere fool without just compensation.
The senses and reason, the receptive faculty and the spontaneously active faculty, have not been as yet separated in their respective functions: a fortiori they are not yet in contradiction with each other. Then the feelings of man are not the formless play of chance; nor are his thoughts an empty play of the imagination, without any value.
Mr Bentham's principle is at best no more than the golden rule of the Gospel without its sanction. Whatever evils, therefore, have existed in societies in which the authority of the Gospel is recognised may, a fortiori, as it appears to us, exist in societies in which the Utilitarian principle is recognised.
The senses and reason, the receptive faculty and the spontaneously active faculty, have not been as yet separated in their respective functions: a fortiori they are not yet in contradiction with each other. Then the feelings of man are not the formless play of chance; nor are his thoughts an empty play of the imagination, without any value.
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