No wonder she treats Annie the way she does. Then I began to do a lot of thinking. Some woman had to be mixed up with the gang. I had seen a woman at the time the fire started on the boat. I had heard of a woman aboard the boat prior to that time. There had been a woman who went with the man to dig up the buried dope. She had escaped and it must have been through her that the smugglers learned so promptly police had been waiting at the place where I had buried the smuggled shipment. You think I dont know how much school teachers make? It has already been seen, that if we have a collection of particulars sufficient for grounding an induction, we need not frame a general proposition; we may reason at once from those particulars to other particulars. But it is to be remarked withal, that whenever, from a set of particular cases, we can legitimately draw any inference, we may legitimately make our inferencea general one. If, from observation and experiment, we can conclude to one new case, so may we to an indefinite number. If that which has held true in our past experience will therefore hold in time to come, it will hold not merely in some individual case, but in all cases of some given description. Every induction, therefore, which suffices to prove one fact, proves an indefinite multitude of facts: the experience which justifies a single prediction must be such as will suffice to bear out a general theorem. This theorem it is extremely important to ascertain and declare, in its broadest form of generality; and thus to place before our minds, in its full extent, the whole of what our evidence must prove if it proves any thing. Should he believe that? The two officers moved over and studied the light-colored surface of the fence post which showed in contrast to the dark, weathered exterior of the other portion. He doesnt know who she means. He was scratching his head and showing a lot of gold teeth in a grin and I figured my crack was probably more truth than poetry. Chapter XXI. He looked pained and split the difference with a half dollar and I started out with a slow fox-trot. Kewpie came over and started to bellow out the chorus, and I couldnt decide whether that or his saxophone playing was worse. I know you are very concerned that if I have a severe medical condition, you will be thrust into a situation where you can lose your financial security. Because I have great love and compassion tor you, I want you to have peace of mind. Can I depend on that? So while I was off teaching that Friday, Maggie did all the marketing for our dinner. And when I got home late that afternoon, we both worked side by side in the kitchen, slicing and dicing the ingredients for our salad, mixing an oil and vinegar dressing, scrubbing the potatoes I would later bake (for some peculiar reason, I have always had an aversion to mashed potatoes, gee, I wonder why). Maggie had one eye on the clock. She was supposed to meet Mr. Zannetti in the shop downstairs at five-thirty. We were salting and spicing the lamb chops I would later pop into the oven, when my sister breathlessly rushed into the apartment and locked the door behind her. A doctrine more precisely the reverse of the Volitional theory of causation can not well be imagined. The Volitional theory is, that we know by intuition or by direct experience the action of our own mental volitions on matter; that we may hence infer all other action upon matter to be that of volition, and might thus know, without any other evidence, that matter is under the government of a Divine Mind. Leibnitz and the Cartesians, on the contrary, maintain that our volitions do not and can not act upon matter, and that it is only the existence of an all-governing Being, and that Being omnipotent, which can account for the sequence between our volitions and our bodily actions. When we consider that each of these two theories, which, as theories of causation, stand at the opposite extremes of possible divergencefrom one another, invokes not only as its evidence, but as its sole evidence, the absolute inconceivability of any theory but itself, we are enabled to measure the worth of this kind of evidence: and when we find the Volitional theory entirely built upon the assertion that by our mental constitution we are compelled to recognize our volitions as efficient causes, and then find other thinkers maintaining that we know that they are not and can not be such causes, and can not conceive them to be so, I think we have a right to say that this supposed law of our mental constitution does not exist. Lester looked indignant and said:He cant do that. This is a free country; you’ve got a right to talk to somebody, certainly. I just told you I dont remember..