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The French Judge very obligingly agreed to all these proposals, and two more of the detained passengers, making four in all, now left the station. Then the officials proceeded to the car, which still remained as the Chief Detective had left it. Here they soon found how just were the General's previsions.
Nor shall we be surprised at this analogy between the modes of progress of positive science and classification, when we bear in mind that both proceed by making generalisations; that both enable us to make previsions differing only in their precision; and that while the one deals with equal properties and relations, the other deals with properties and relations that approximate towards equality in variable degrees.
The general's previsions were justified. The whole of those arrested were retained in prison for some months, and no such general rising as had been planned was ever carried into effect. During the winter, stores and ordnance arrived from France for the supply of the Irish army, and from England for the use of the British, and a great number of officers from the Continent also joined both armies.
So that science and the knowledge of the uncultured are alike in the nature of their previsions, widely as they differ in range; they possess a common imperfection, though this is immensely greater in the last than in the first; and the transition from the one to the other has been through a series of steps by which the imperfection has been rendered continually less, and the range continually wider.
That is to say, we must draw evidence of our faith from its latent capacities, its unsuspected affinities, its previsions, its adaptability, comprehensiveness, sympathy, adequacy to human needs. 'That puts very well what I have always felt, replied Mr Warricombe. 'Yet there will remain the objection that such a faith may be of purely human origin.
Each page, then each line, and soon every word of this part of my Memoirs will be a cry of alarm: 'God save the King! Alas! He has not saved him. One is always wrong if one cannot get a hearing and make one's self believed. It is then, with no pride in my previsions, but with bitter regret, that I could not get them accepted, that I recall this long monologue addressed to Charles X."
On further considering the matter, however, it will perhaps be felt that this definition does not express the whole fact that inseparable as science may be from common knowledge, and completely as we may fill up the gap between the simplest previsions of the child and the most recondite ones of the natural philosopher, by interposing a series of previsions in which the complexity of reasoning involved is greater and greater, there is yet a difference between the two beyond that which is here described.
"Certainly, and we only know of its extent in one way. It may be hundreds of miles in length." "Very likely." "Then," said I, after calculating for some for some minutes, "if your previsions are right, we are at this moment exactly under the Mediterranean itself." "Do you think so?" "Yes, I am almost certain of it. Are we not nine hundred leagues distant from Reykjavik?"
"And yet it is serious in a sense," said he; "for this rogue of a Katrine or Cateran, as we may call her has set adrift again upon the world that very doubtful character, her papa." Here was one of my previsions justified: James More was once again at liberty. Now came his reward, and he was free.
And we shall be less surprised, on remembering that the only things involved in these previsions were time and number; and that the time was in a manner self-numbered.
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