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CERTAINTY Prelud.

The Prediction of the Law is in no case absolute
but depending for it's being verified upon a
long chain of contingencies -

It says not in effect, whatever it may appear -
to say in sound words, "The man who stealeth shall
be hanged" - But "he shall be hanged, if
if he from whom ought is stolen who saw him steal will discover
it — if any one will apprehend the
Stealer — if the Justice will committ him -
if the Gaoler will receive & committ him keep him
if the witnesses will depose against him - if
the Jury will convict him - If the Gaoler
will again receive & keep him — If the
Sheriff's Officer will convey him to the place
of execution — If the Sovereign will suffer the execution to take place without exercising his prerogative of pardoning. if the Executioner will hang
him — a thousand intervening ifs being omitted beside the
principal ones here expressed being omitted -

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Of these ifs But will the man he who saw him steal discover
it? will he or any other apprehend him
[power being all along supposed] will every one
of these suppositions be successively converted into
realities?

The answer to each of these questions runs on into
a yet another string of suppositions

Will the man he who saw him steal discover
this introduces

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Folio number	038	Info in main headings field	certainty prelud.
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