THE ARGUMENT STATEL. 13 



as the cause of phenomena, in exclusion of agency and power, 

 or when it is substituted into the place of thes(?. 



VIII. Neither, lastly, would our observer be driven out 

 of his conclusion or from his confidence in its truth, by being 

 told that he knew nothing al all about the matter. He 

 knows enough for his argument ; he knows the utility of the 

 end ; he knows the subserviency and adaptation of the means 

 to the end. These points being known, his ignorance of 

 other points, his doubts concerning other points, affect not 

 the certainty of his reasoning. The consciousness of know- 

 ing little need not beget a distrust of that which he does 

 know. 



