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a few such persons in the calculation would speedily raise the number 
of resulting chances in the above cases into hundreds and thousands; 
and in Case 9 (the regiment of Fusiliers going to Waterloo), between 
the soldiers of the regiment and onlookers upon the road, the chances 
in one form or another for legitimately discrepant statements concern- 
ing the wearing of the queue are not merely thousands in number, but 
multiplied millions. 
(7) The degree of contradiction involved in many of the cases :— 
Case 6.—The same person on a certain occasion did, and did not, 
attend a certain lady, 1. e., he must, apparently, have been in two places 
at the same time. 
Case 8.—The same person, not once only, but several times alter- 
nately, had, and had not, read all the Bible. 
Case 9.—The same regiment of soldiers at the same time did, and 
did not, wear the queue. 
Case 11.—The same person in the same purchase paid two prices 
for the same farm. 
Case 13.—The same occurrence took place with the same person 
when he was going to, and when he was leaving, the same place. 
Case 17.—The same person apparently made $1,000 and lost $2,500 
on the same sale of the same farm. 
Case 19.—The same person was apparently both married and 
single at the same time. 
Case 20.—At the same service in the same church there was appar- 
ently an attendance of two hundred, and of only four. 
Case 21.—The same person at the same time had, and had not, seen 
the physician M. 
Case 22.—According to the circumstances of the discrepancy, the 
same person could declare himself a Presbyterian and a Lutheran at the 
same time. 
Case 23.—The same person was not only sick and well, but in better 
and in worse health, at the same time. 
(c) DiscovERY oF DISCREPANCY. 
Cases of legitimate discrepancy, although they occur in truthful 
intercourse more or less continuously, are not easily discovered. In 
the main, between statements made in such intercourse, there is sub- 
stantial harmony; and legitimate discrepancy, where it occurs, is only 
an incidental and exceptional feature. Even with the searcher for 
statements which conflict legitimately, there is a pronounced tendency 
