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Down below he heard footsteps. Chapter 22 Im fine. Why? What’s wrong? I quote from Dr. WhewellsHist. Ind. Sc., 3d ed., i., 129. Never mind talking about whats gone before, Trenton said. I want to conduct my own defence from now on, and in order to do it I have to discharge you. Therefore, you’re discharged. Do you understand that? With respect to the laws of motion, Dr. Whewell says:No one can doubt that, in historical fact, these laws were collected from experience. That such is the case, is no matter of conjecture. We know the time, the persons, the circumstances, belonging to each step of each discovery.[82] After this testimony, to adduce evidence of the fact would be superfluous. And not only were these laws by no means intuitively evident, but some of them were originally paradoxes. The first law was especially so. That a body, once in motion, would continue forever to move in the same direction with undiminished velocity unless acted upon by some new force, was a proposition which mankind found for a long time the greatest difficulty in crediting. It stood opposed to apparent experience of the most familiar kind, which taught that it was the nature of motion to abate gradually, and at last terminate of itself. Yet when once the contrary doctrine was firmly established, mathematicians, as Dr. Whewell observes, speedily began to believe that laws, thus contradictory to first appearances, and which, even after full proof had been obtained, it had required generations to render familiar to the minds of the scientific world, were under “a demonstrable necessity, compelling them to be such as they are and no other; and he himself, though not venturing “absolutely to pronounce that all these laws “can be rigorously traced to an absolute necessity in the nature of things,[83] does actually so think of the law just mentioned; of which he says: “Though the discovery of the first law of motion was made, historically speaking, by means of experiment, we have now attained a point of view in which we see that it might have been certainly known to be true, independently of experience.[84] Can there be a more striking exemplification than is here afforded, of the effect of association which we have described? Philosophers, for generations, have the most extraordinary difficulty in putting certain ideas together; they at last succeed in doing so; and after a sufficient repetition ofthe process, they first fancy a natural bond between the ideas, then experience a growing difficulty, which at last, by the continuation of the same progress, becomes an impossibility, of severing them from one another. If such be the progress of an experimental conviction of which the date is of yesterday, and which is in opposition to first appearances, how must it fare with those which are conformable to appearances familiar from the first dawn of intelligence, and of the conclusiveness of which, from the earliest records of human thought, no skeptic has suggested even a momentary doubt? Coleridge, in one of the essays in theFriend, has illustrated the matter we are now considering, in discussing the origin of a proverb, which, differently worded, is to be found in all the languages of Europe, viz., “Fortune favors fools. He ascribes it partly to the “tendency to exaggerate all effects that seem disproportionate to their visible cause, and all circumstances that are in any way strongly contrastedwith our notions of the persons under them. Omitting some explanations which would refer the error to mal-observation, or to the other species of non-observation (that of circumstances), I take up the quotation further on. “Unforeseen coincidences may have greatly helped a man, yet if they have done for him only what possibly from his own abilities he might have effected for himself, his good luck will excite less attention, and the instances be less remembered. That clever men should attain their objects seems natural, and we neglect the circumstances that perhaps produced that success of themselves without the intervention of skill or foresight; but we dwell on the fact and remember it, as something strange, when the same happens to a weak or ignorant man. So too, though the latter should fail in his undertakings from concurrences that might have happened to the wisest man, yet his failure being no more than might have been expected and accounted for from his folly, it lays no hold on our attention, but fleets away among the other undistinguished waves in which the stream of ordinary life murmurs by us, and is forgotten. Had it been as true as it was notoriously false, that those all-embracing discoveries, which have shed a dawn of science on the art of chemistry, and give no obscure promise of some one great constitutive law, in the light of which dwell dominion and the power of prophecy; if these discoveries, instead of having been, as they really were, preconcerted by meditation, and evolved out of his own intellect, had occurred by a set of lucky accidents to the illustrious father and founder of philosophic alchemy; if they had presented themselves to Professor Davy exclusively in consequence of his luck in possessing a particular galvanic battery; if this battery, as far as Davy was concerned, had itself been an accident, and not (as in point of fact it was) desired and obtained by him for the purpose of insuring the testimony of experience to his principles, and in order to bind down material nature under the inquisition of reason, and force from her, as by torture, unequivocal answers to prepared and preconceived questions—yet still they would not have been talked of or described as instances of luck, but as the natural results of his admitted genius and known skill. But should an accident have disclosed similar discoveries to a mechanic at Birmingham or Sheffield, and if the man should grow rich in consequence, and partly by the envy of his neighbors and partly with good reason, be considered by them as a man below par in the general powers of his understanding; then, Oh, what a lucky fellow! Well, Fortune does favor fools—thats for certain! It is always so!’ And forthwith the exclaimer relates half a dozen similar instances. Thus accumulating the one sort of facts and never collecting the other, we do, as poets in their diction, and quacks of all denominations do in their reasoning, put a part for the whole. Which was why Roy had been so set on making this a proper holiday, quality time with his family— and the chateau, with its remoteness and privacy and no other guests, had seemed the ideal place for this. Perhaps in the morning, with the sun shining, it would turn out to be the paradise that he and Cleo had so much hoped for. Certainly, from the messages he had read from the celebrities andother guests who had visited over the years, it seemed the place had much to offer — even if it hadnt been immediately apparent. What happened, Shean? Youre misreading what she said. I guess she hears voices. She enjoys fucking in the outdoors, Buck said. I do not, she snapped at him. All I know is that shes been hounded to death by policemen and newspapermen until she’s on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and she’s gone to some place to try and get a little privacy. I don’t know where it is, and if I did I wouldn’t tell you. She’ll show up at the proper time, don’t worry about that. I can get down all by myself, believe me. I can get all the way down to the street all by myself, so dont give me anyhelp, okay? I know just where you’re coming from. Go home, okay? She mulled the situation thoughtfully.It wouldnt look good. The Garden Club in Falthaven wouldn’t approve — if it knew. Not in this town. I dont say Crandall can influence the judge; I don’t think he can. But he sure as hell can get a criminal case speeded up if he wants to pull a few strings. Christ, man! I guess you don’t realize the influence a man like that carries in this sort of town. Look at it thisway. He’s in with the decent people and he’s in with the crooks. Suppose some reputable person makes a slip. Crandall has his underworld element to tell him of the slip, as well as his decent friends and the things he learns through his own practice. He’s got people like that foul; they’ll jump when he speaks. He’s been here for years. A situation like that snowballs; I’m willing to bet he knows as much about the private life of this town as the town does. He can bring pressure to bear in a thousand different ways. It’s a form of blackmail; but he keeps in the clear all the time. Well, thats hypnotism, isn’t it? Annie said. Controlling someone else’s mind?.