(39) The resurrection of Christ in the flesh and his ascension into heaven were events either intrinsically incredible in their nature or not. If the former, the prevalent belief in them can only be accounted for by miracles; if the latter, they ought to be believed even without miracles. St. Aug. De Civ. Dei, xxii. 8. (40) Only contented people are wise. Therefore the tramp contented in his rags is necessarily a wise man. (41) Four-legged things are brutes. Tables are four-legged things. .'. Tables are brutes. (42) The apparent volcanoes in the moon are not volcanoes; for eruptions are produced by gases only, and there are no gases in the moon. (43) To read the Scriptures is our duty. Therefore the Captain was wrong in punishing the helmsman for reading the Bible at the time when the ship struck. (44) The divine law orders that kings should be honoured. Louis Quatorze is a king. .'. The divine law orders that Louis Quatorze should be honoured. (45) Those who desire the same object are unanimous. Caesar and Pompey both desire the same object, namely, supreme power. .'. They are unanimous. (46) Either the ministers left at home will be ciphers or they will not be ciphers. If they are ciphers, cabinet government, which is equivalent to constitutional government, will receive a rude blow. If they are not ciphers, the cabinet will be considering matters of the utmost importance in the absence, and the gratuitous absence, of two of its most important members. 'The Standard,' Wed. June 5, 1878. (47) One patent stove saves half the ordinary amount of fuel. Therefore two would save it all. (48) One number must win in the lottery. My ticket is one number. .'. It must win. (49) All good shepherds are prepared to lay down their lives for the sheep. Few in this age are so prepared. .'. Few in this age are good shepherds. (50) You cannot define the sun; for a definition must be clearer than the thing defined, and nothing can be clearer than the source of all light. (51) To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry ... must in almost all cases be either a useless or a hurtful regulation. If the produce of domestic can be brought there as cheap as that of foreign industry, the regulation is evidently useless; if it cannot, it is generally hurtful. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, Bk. iv. ch. 2. (52) Verberare est actio. Ergo et vapulare. (53) The ages of all the members of this family are over 150. The baby is a member of this family. .'. Its age is over 150. (54) Romulus must be an historical person; because it is not at all likely that the Romans, whose memory was only burdened with seven kings, should have forgotten the most famous of them, namely, the first.