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to attend to some such circumstances, but
that they have learned better. How have
they learned this? By an induction. Very well,
that induction must have been based upon
a theory which the induction verified. How
was it that man was ever led to entertain
that true theory? You cannot say that it
happened by chance, because the possible theories,
if not strictly innumerable, at any rate
exceed a trillion,— or the third power of
a million; and therefore the chances
are too overwhelmingly against the single
true theory in the twenty or thirty
thousand years during which man has been
a thinking animal, ever having come into