SECT. 32.] Modality. 331 



an indication of the mode in which, in theory, such a solution 

 would have to be sought, were the English law, on these 

 subjects, a perfectly consistent scheme of scientific evidence. 

 This is the mode in which one would, under those circum 

 stances, attempt to extract from its proceedings an admission 

 of the exact measure of that standard of certainty which it 

 adopted, but which it declined openly to enunciate. 



