I know it, Trenton said, and if the judge had ruled the other way and bound me over for murder, theyd have been looking at me as though I were a snake. Joe started for the door, then after the manner of a good cook, turned, carefully drained the grease from the bacon and set the frying-pan over on the back of the stove. He grabbed his cane, hobbled to the door, and stood looking at the driveway.Well, Ill be doggoned, he said. Rob tried to get to his feet but with his hands handcuffed behind his back he could only flounder around like an awkward fish in death-struggles on a wharf. Ileft the station and stopped in the first bar on my route. It was called the RUSTIC and the decoration scheme wasnt too original. Pine logs with the bark on them covered the walls and the bar itself was a big tree cut in half and polished. Big sugar-pine cones were festooned all over the placewith deer heads and guns on the walls. The place even smelled piny and out-doorsy. Suppose you tell me about it. Maybe I can fix that, too. She wasnt a vegetable. He said, speaking slowly:Im an older man than you, Connell. I’ve been an officer just about all my life and I’ve mixed with a lot of people. I’ve never made a mistake when I gave the other fella credit for more brains than I thought he had. Or for a lucky break. That figuring the other guy for a chump is the worst thing you can do. Its horrible,’ Cleo said. We never once thought something might have happened to her in Sweden. Never onceimagined anything had happened to her mind. § 2. The different antecedents and consequents being, then, supposed to be, so far as the case requires, ascertained and discriminated from one another, we are to inquire which is connected with which. In every instance which comes under our observation, there are many antecedents and many consequents. If those antecedents could not be severed from one another except in thought, or if those consequents never were found apart, it would be impossible for us to distinguish (a posterioriat least) the real laws, or to assign to any cause its effect, or to any effect its cause. To do so, we must be able to meet with some of the antecedents apart from the rest, and observe what follows from them; or some of the consequents, and observe by what they are preceded. We must, in short, follow the Baconian rule of varying the circumstances. This is, indeed, only the first rule of physical inquiry, and not, as some have thought, the sole rule; but it is the foundation of all the rest. When you have a lawyer you must do what he tells you. You mean were going to leave some of this stuff here? Trenton smiled and said,Much better. Just weak and wobbly. It is at this stage, probably, in the progress of a concrete name, that the corresponding abstract name generally comes into use. Under the notionthat the concrete name must of course convey a meaning, or, in other words, that there is some property common to all things which it denotes, people give a name to this common property; from the concrete Civilized, they form the abstract Civilization. But since most people have never compared the different things which are called by the concrete name, in such a manner as to ascertain what properties these things have in common, or whether they have any; each is thrown back upon the marks by which he himself has been accustomed to be guided in his application of the term; and these, being merely vague hearsays and current phrases, are not the same in any two persons, nor in the same person at different times. Hence the word (as Civilization, for example) which professes to be the designation of the unknown common property, conveys scarcely to any two minds the same idea. No two persons agree in the things they predicate of it; and when it is itself predicated of any thing, no other person knows, nor does the speaker himself know with precision, what he means to assert. Many other words which could be named, as the word honor, or the word gentleman, exemplify this uncertainty still more strikingly. In one of the three cases, Mr. Spencer, to my no small surprise, thinks that the belief of mankindcan not be rightly said to have undergone the change I allege. Mr. Spencer himself still thinks we are unable to conceive gravitation acting through empty space. “If an astronomer avowed that he could conceive gravitative force as exercised through space absolutely void, my private opinion would be that he mistook the nature of conception. Conception implies representation. Here the elements of the representation are the two bodies and an agency by which either affects the other. To conceive this agency is to represent it in some terms derived from our experiences—that is, from our sensations. As this agency gives us no sensations, we are obliged (if we try to conceive it) to use symbols idealized from our sensations—imponderable units forming a medium. Chapter Twelve.