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Updated: May 17, 2025
And here let us not omit to notice that even in these vaguest of quantitative previsions, the conception of equality of relations is also involved. For it is only in virtue of an undefined perception that the relation between bulk and weight in the one stone is equal to the relation between bulk and weight in the other, that even the roughest approximation can be made.
The education accorded the present generation justifies the most gloomy previsions. It is in part by instruction and education that the mind of the masses is improved or deteriorated.
Tom had more than usual to do that night, and it was nearly ten when he rose from his books. Constance watched him put them aside, and stretch himself. Then she spoke. "Tom, you must go and find Charles. I begin to feel uneasy. Something must have happened, to keep him out like this." The feeling "uneasy" rather amused Tom. Previsions of evil are not apt to torment schoolboys.
Fully was I aware that, despite his enthusiasm, and the ever-to-be-hated scroll of Saknussemm, my uncle should never have started on his perilous voyage. What memories of the happy past, what previsions of the horrible future, now filled my brain! Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind.
"Then why, why, do you torture yourself and me with these dark previsions?" "I do not know. Forgive me, Herman," softly sighed Nora, laying her cheek against his own. He stole his arm around her waist, and as he drew her to his heart, murmured: "Why should you not enjoy all the wealth, rank, and love to which you are entitled as my wife?" "Ah! dear Herman, I cannot tell why.
My previsions justified themselves, for in the course of the afternoon we made the entrance to the harbor, and ran in before such a sea as I never saw in those waters before.
I have been precipitated, not without the previsions of my conscious mind, from my modest prosperity. . . . For the last month I have been engaged on an historical work of the highest interest; and I hope that, in default of a talent altogether problematic with me, my sketch of national customs will bring me luck.
Thus the extent to which our quantitative previsions have been carried in any direction, indicates the depth to which our knowledge reaches in that direction. And here, as another aspect of the same fact, we may further observe that as we pass from qualitative to quantitative prevision, we pass from inductive science to deductive science.
The actual distribution of instinct upsets our most reasonable previsions. It upsets our expectations so completely that we are surprised to find in the dung-beetle the noble prerogative which is lacking in the bee tribe. The mates of several species of dung-beetle keep house together and know the worth of mutual labour.
Nobody will take any particular notice, perhaps, and you will be so disappointed you will not know what to do. Hundreds of girls appear every season and nobody minds." Bice took no notice of these subduing and moderating previsions. She smiled and repeated what the Contessa said. "I must do the best for myself, for I have no fortune."
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