Published in 1863 | 421 pages | PDF reader required
TO THOSE WHO ARE OF MY MIND
I like an argument—I like to take up a subject and follow it to the end, however startling the end may be—I like the argument with a friend; or by myself—I like it conducted on the principles of a trial by jury. Counsel speak on both sides.
The evidence is often not positive. The prisoner is guilty or not, according to a chain of circumstances. But the jury must give a verdict as though the circumstances were pesitive, instead of inferred. It must be-guilty, or not guilty.
So in philosophical arguments, we cannot get on a step without taking probabilities for evidences.
In this Pamphlet I have allowed myself the utmost latitude, and, as the "Times" of to-day says, "I don't mind confessing it here, because nobody knows me."
THE AUTHOR.
London, 1858.
