And so artists and scientists, philosophers and politicians, financiers and religious leaders, arise and survive by the operation of the laws of probabilities and chances, rather than by any intelligent selection and cultivation of material.

All speculation, however, on the possible future developments of my father's opinions, and on the probabilities of permanent co-operation between him and me in the promulgation of our thoughts, was doomed to be cut short.

He asked many questions about it, about Craft, about Sharpman, about Ralph's knowledge of himself; the whole ground, indeed, was gone over carefully from the beginning to the present; even the probabilities of the future were fully discussed.

Painful as the task is, they never fail to warn the author, in the most impressive manner, of the probabilities of failure in what he has undertaken.

"On arriving at Borrodale, Locheill had a private interview with the Prince, in which the probabilities of the enterprise were anxiously debated.

" "That, too, as I take it, is a question of Dialectics, unless you choose to reduce the whole to a balance-of-probabilities argument- rather too narrow a basis for a World-faith to stand upon.

Before these two sickening probabilities the boy paused motionless, helpless.

As I write, General Washburn, Hedges and Hauser are engaged in an animated discussion of the differences between France and Germany, and the probabilities of the outcome of the war.

The shrewd old man listened to the father's story, his explanations of possibilities, of probabilities, of dangers, of hopes.

For, while others listened for the clearness of the thought, for the acuteness of the argument, she listened as a soul wide, fine-strung, acute, repressed, whose every fibre is a nerve, listens to the problem of its own destiny,listened as the mother of a family listens, to know what were the possibilities, the probabilities, of this mysterious existence of ours to herself and those dearer to her than herself.

Some persons expected to see the frigate got afloat the next day, and their joy shewed that they were fully persuaded of it: there were indeed some probabilities, but they were very slight; for the vessel had been merely got out of its bed.

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© on introd.; 5May22, A661653. R61732, 28Apr50, Henry Seidel Canby (A) THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF PROBABILITIES, and its application to frequency curves and statistical methods, by Arne Fisher.

1; Mathematical probabilities, frequency curves, homograde and heterograde statistics.

But the great probabilities are accepted in practice as equivalent to certainties.

"Thus all the general probabilities are in favour of the hypothesis that this woman was Jeffrey Blackmore.

Young as he was, and wounded as he was, Thurstane was so badgered by his army habit of incessant responsibility that he could not lie down to rest until he had visited the camp and examined personally into probabilities of attack and means of defence.

Probabilities Considered, Pp.

Probabilities Considered.

What are the probabilities in this matter?

With these probabilities in our favor, let us now take a brief survey of those symbols found in the word of God, which represent earthly governments.

We think we have shown good ground for strong probabilities in this direction; and we shall present more forcible evidence, and speak of more significant movements hereafter.