Mom, I say, when did you speak to her last? You have some big emotional problems, Mommie Dearest. Thats why all your children consider you a threat to their happiness. Do you care at all about any of us? Do you care at all aboutme? Do you care at all about Mirko? § 6. From the application of a single approximate generalization to individual cases, we proceed to the application of two or more of them together to the same case. But thats what you do, isn’t it? Annie said. Hed sent them to a chemist to have them analyzed. We found them in the chemist’s laboratory. It might interest you to know their contents. Its me! Help! Macintosh said:I guess this is enough. Youre under arrest, Crandall. And you too, mister. I walk in brilliant sunshine, smiling. Whoever, she said, and waved one hand on the air, as if brushing away a fly. Id go crazy if I listened to them. 102 Kindly tell me who you are. What is your capacity? Yes (answers the Owenite), but these words,if we will, surrender the whole point: since the will to alter our own character is given us, not by any efforts of ours, but by circumstances which we can not help, it comes to us either from external causes, or not at all. Most true: if the Owenite stops here, he is in a position from which nothing can expel him. Our character is formed by us as well as for us; but the wish which induces us to attempt to form it is formed for us; and how? Not, in general, by our organization, nor wholly by our education, but by our experience; experience of the painful consequences of the characterwe previously had; or by some strong feeling of admiration or aspiration, accidentally aroused. But to think that we have no power of altering our character, and to think that we shall not use our power unless we desire to use it, are very different things, and have a very different effect on the mind. A person who does not wish to alter his character, can not be the person who is supposed to feel discouraged or paralyzed by thinking himself unable to do it. The depressing effect of the fatalist doctrine can only be felt where there is a wish to do what that doctrine represents as impossible. It is of no consequence what we think forms our character, when we have no desire of our own about forming it; but it is of great consequence that we should not be prevented from forming such a desire by thinking the attainment impracticable, and that if we have the desire, we should know that the work is not so irrevocably done as to be incapable of being altered. Dont tell me your symptoms, she snapped. There’s a dozen eggs over there. Break them into that bowl and add half a cup of cream, then beat them all up. We’re going to have scrambled eggs, bacon, toast and coffee. You can get busy and help things along. § 4. Proceeding now to consider what is to be regarded as sufficient evidence of an approximate generalization, we can have no difficulty in at once recognizing that, when admissible at all, it is admissible only as an empirical law. Propositions of the form, Every A is B, are not necessarily lawsof causation, or ultimate uniformities of co-existence; propositions like Most A are B,can not be so. Propositions hitherto found true in every observed instance may yet be no necessary consequence of laws of causation, or of ultimate uniformities, and unless they are so, may, for aught we know, be false beyond the limits of actual observation; still more evidently must this be the case with propositions which are only true in a mere majority of the observed instances. At Crandalls place. Yes..