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the reasons come and arrange themselves properly, and so you arrive at a 
conclusion. One who occupies himself with intricate , u.Uons ^t fee 
this, and it is as much a rational process as any m which the mm 
may he engaged. Let me make another remark m confirmation of X> . 
Bigg X do not believe that some human beings are endowed with an m ui- 
Swhich Xrstve not, and the illustrations which Mr. Bow -gives on 
the subject of memory where he agrees with Dr. Newman form one 
cases in which I disagree with both. In his 54th section, he says .- 
“Dr Newman teUs ns of a person who could e f u ™“^,, WaCt ° rdW 
the names on all the shops from Hyde Park Corner to the Bank, 
Now, if that were true, the man must have devoted hk ! attenti °” 
it bv rote I am sorry to have taken up so much time, but this is a 
paper of 'considerable importance, and I have been ^“ se lin C 
over many points in order to bring my remarks Within even these limits. 
^(L^H.-My duty as Chairman 
few remarks on what has already been said. , . , 0 £ 
own battle with Mr. Reddie, whose able criticisms must he met by the author 
the paper himself, hut I do want to make one or two observa ions on w 
has fallen from Dr. Bigg, and on the correct way he teethe ™ty 
which we find in understanding and appreciating Dr. Newman Dr. N 
man as ha^already been pointed out, carefully avoids definmg terms ; and 
rh^on-d^tionof terms is an element in which the sceptical monster very 
proposition, but you can he certa J ^ prop o S ition, and, so far as 
proposition A is likely to h , P round the 
your mind goes, it is as good a certainty as that the earth ^ ^ ^ 
sun, or any other certainty °f yo™ °™ Nation ’ 0 f the difficulty about 
“a“lffiCthude.” 0r i speak at a disadvantage, for I have not read,- 
