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But should it happen by any impossible conjuncture
that they were opposed there can be no doubt
that it would be Truth to which Stuart Mill would be
faithful to even to the stake. It was a most dreary
world,— the universe as the Ockhamists conceived
it. It utterly sickened Stuart Mill. But that, as he conceived
it, was the only universe there was,— the only universe
that was so much as imaginable. Anything of the
nature of a Law was, according to that creed, nothing
but a word,— a nothing. Yet Stuart Mill having to
ask himself what makes Inductions hold good,
replied the Uniformity of Nature. The word law
was concealed for his apprehension behind
this word Uniformity. But after all, what
is the difference between saying that there is