APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS
No induction, however broad its basis, can confer certainty—in tbe strict sense of the word. The experience of the whole human race through innumerable years lifts shown that, stones unsupported fall to the ground, hut that does not make it certain that iany day next week unsupported stones will not move the other way. All that it does justify is the very strong expectation verified, that they will do just the contrary. Only one absolute certainty is possible to man—namely, that- at any given moment the feeling which lie has exists- i
* -X- * * All other so-called certainties are be) infs of greater or less intensity. Of moral purpose J. see no trace in 'Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture—very much to our credit.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1932, Page 5
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129APHORISMS AND REFLECTIONS Hokitika Guardian, 13 April 1932, Page 5
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