The explanation of this paradox is not difficult to find.

As we look round the world, and enumerate the commodities which by common consent are the most useful, salt, water, bread, and so forth, the striking paradox presents itself that these are among the cheapest of all commodities; far cheaper than champagne, motor-cars or ball-dresses, which we could very well get on without.

As things are, of course, a ball-dress, or a motor-car costs more to produce than a loaf of bread or a packet of salt; and the common-sense explanation of the paradox seems, therefore, to be that the cost of production is a more weighty influence than the usefulness, or utility, as we will henceforth call it (so as to include the satisfaction we derive from not strictly useful things).

This statement is perfectly consistent with the paradox noted above that the most useful commodities such as bread, salt and water are very cheap.

The title of this work will produce the effect of a paradox.

If you say this is a paradox I reply: it must be so, since it requires faith to accept a paradox.

If you say this is a paradox I reply: it must be so, since it requires faith to accept a paradox.

* THAT CONFIDENCE (COURAGE) IS NOT INCONSISTENT WITH CAUTION.The opinion of the philosophers perhaps seem to some to be a paradox; but still let us examine as well as we can, if it is true that it is possible to do everything both with caution and with confidence.

That which seems to many to be a paradox in the matter under consideration in my opinion is of this kind; if we asserted that we ought to employ caution and confidence in the same things, men might justly accuse us of bringing together things which cannot be united.

5. "I said unto the fools, deal not so madly," and 'twas an old Stoical paradox, omnes stultos insanire, all fools are mad, though some madder than others.

'Tis Tully's paradox, "wise men are free, but fools are slaves," liberty is a power to live according to his own laws, as we will ourselves: who hath this liberty?

But each man must correct and alter to show his skill, every opinionative fellow must maintain his own paradox, be it what it will; Delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi: they dote, and in the meantime the poor patients pay for their new experiments, the commonalty rue it.

1. opposeth it, aloes "doth not open the veins," or move the haemorrhoids, which Leonhartus Fuchsius paradox.

Imperio digna forma, beauty deserves a kingdom, saith Abulensis, paradox.

This impious paradox * *.

They are, without exception, occupied exclusively with philosophical questions, or else they only refer to such personal reminiscences as may best be converted into the text for some Stoical paradox or moral declamation.

[Footnote 1: Paradox V. on the Thesis that All who are wise are Free, and the fools Slaves.

Besides that, it always gives a Supernumerary Beauty to a Paper, and is sometimes in a manner necessary when the Writer is engaged in what may appear a Paradox to vulgar Minds, as it shews that he is supported by good Authorities, and is not singular in his Opinion.

It may seem, says he, a Paradox, that the Price of Labour should be reduced without an Abatement of Wages, or that Wages can be abated without any Inconvenience to the Labourer, and yet nothing is more certain than that both those Things may happen.

He maintained what seemed to his hearers a paradox, though it would be interesting to hear his arguments from some profounder economist than Boswell, that a country would be made more populous by emigration.

" "Paradox," said the man, "is meant to conceal the insincerity of the aged, not to express the simplicity of youth.

What he wanted was an out-of-door life which should not altogether deprive him of the pleasures of an urban existence; and he accomplished this paradox by premising a farm within convenient motoring distance of Chicago, on one of the hard roads.

It is a possible explanation to the paradox that each of them regarded him as a potential ally and so spent more time trying to change his ways, scolding at him, pointing out his derelictions and lost opportunities, than it was worth while spending on the others who were hopeless.

She carried paradox too far.

This is paradoxical, we admit; but slavery is a paradoxthe American Constitution is a paradoxthe American Union is a paradoxthe American Government is a paradox; and if any one of these is to be repudiated on that ground, they all are.