... but I do believe in God, and Im in continual devotional practice which my family somehow interprets as suffering. I’m not suffering. I’m healthy and happy. The cowbells were drifting up now from the hill below in musical cadences. There were four cowbells and the effect of the harmony was as pleasing to the ear as the rolling scenery was to the eye. Seriously? Roy said. ‘This can’t be it.’ I really do. Not to you or your friends, thats for sure. Maybe the thunder that had shaken the house earlier somehow loosened the head and it had tumbled off the wall? Berg... We have seen that when the two or more propositions comprised in what is called a complex proposition are stated absolutely, and not under any condition or proviso, it is not a proposition at all, but a plurality of propositions; since what it expresses is not a single assertion, but several assertions, which, if true when joined, are true also when separated. But there is a kind of proposition which, though it contains a plurality of subjects and of predicates, and may be said in one sense of the word to consist of several propositions, contains but one assertion; and its truth does not at all imply that of the simple propositions which compose it. An example of this is, when the simple propositions are connected by the particleor; as, either A is B or C is D; or by the particle if; as, A is B if C is D. In the former case, the proposition is called disjunctive, in the latter, conditional: the name hypothetical was originally common to both. Since we are continually discovering that uniformities, not previously known to be other than ultimate, are derivative, and resolvable into more general laws; since (in other words) we are continually discovering the explanation of some sequence which was previously known only as a fact; it becomes an interesting question whether there are any necessary limits to this philosophical operation, or whether it may proceed until all the uniform sequences in nature are resolved into some one universal law. For this seems, at first sight, to be the ultimatum toward which the progress of induction by the Deductive Method, resting on a basis of observation and experiment, is tending. Projects of this kind were universal in the infancy of philosophy; any speculations which held out a less brilliant prospect being in these early times deemed not worth pursuing. And the idea receives so much apparent countenance from the nature of the most remarkable achievements of modern science, that speculators are even now frequently appearing, who profess either to have solved the problem, or to suggest modes in which it may one day be solved. Even where pretensionsof this magnitude are not made, the character of the solutions which are given or sought of particular classes of phenomena, often involves such conceptions of what constitutes explanation, as would render the notion of explaining all phenomena whatever by means of some one cause or law, perfectly admissible. Ive rigged a deal for Gentry. They’ll give him immunity if he’ll sing. Mac said:Hell, kid, Ive never been east of the Mississippi River. I wouldn’t fool you. I’m the other sort of G-man that just works by guess and by God. Stanley! Ostrander exclaimed, grabbing the outstretched hand and pumping it up and down. How the devil did you ever locate me? I said:Im sorry, babe. It’s just that I’m nervous. You stay here like a good girl. Whos Sally Jean? I asked. I thought maybe some of your friends invited daughters they arent ashamed of. I said:You bet. Even if he has to frame you with an assault charge against a minor to blackmail you into a settlement. Hes a fighter, that man. The man turned to Rob Trenton apologetically.You heard what my friend said? The bus is half an hour late. Were going to Noonville, if you’re going in that direction. No wonder she treats Annie the way she does. In the originalhad, or had not. These last words, as involving a subtlety foreign to our present purpose, I have forborne to quote. Dr. Wards argument, however, does not touch mine as it stands in the text. My argument is grounded on the fact that the uniformity of the course of nature as a whole, is constituted by the uniform sequences of special effects from special natural agencies; that the number of these natural agencies in the part of the universe known to us is not incalculable, nor even extremely great; that we have now reason to think that at least the far greater number of them, if not separately, at least in some of the combinations into which they enter, have been made sufficiently amenable to observation, to haveenabled us actually to ascertain some of their fixed laws; and that this amount of experience justifies the same degree of assurance that the course of nature is uniform throughout, which we previously had of the uniformity of sequence among the phenomena best known to us. This view of the subject,if correct, destroys the force of Dr. Ward’s first argument..