cousin-germane

Updated: May 17, 2025

We all know how easy it is to prophesy after the event: but it would be uncandid and untrue to confound this remark with another, cousin-germane to it; to wit: how easy it is to discern of any event, after it has happened, whether or not it were antecedently likely.

Martin Farquhar Tupper - Probabilities : An aid to Faith