In like manner all public facts are to be individualized, all private facts are to be generalized.
In the early history of Asia and Africa, Nomadism and Agriculture are the two antagonist facts. The geography of Asia and of Africa necessitated a nomadic life.
But it does not follow that the re-examination of a fact once ascertained by a jury, will be permitted in the Supreme Court.
In the former, the revision of the law only will be, generally speaking, the proper province of the Supreme Court; in the latter, the re-examination of the fact is agreeable to usage, and in some cases, of which prize causes are an example, might be essential to the preservation of the public peace.
And always he checked them back to
facts. "The
fact, man, the irrefragable
fact!" he would proclaim triumphantly, when he had brought one of them a cropper.
I will then pass on to the variability of species in a state of nature; but I shall, unfortunately, be compelled to treat this subject far too briefly, as it can be treated properly only by giving long catalogues of
facts. We shall, however, be enabled to discuss what circumstances are most favourable to variation.
Memories, as mental
facts, arise from time to time, but do not, so far as we can see, exist in any shape while they are "latent." In
fact, when we say that they are "latent," we mean merely that they will exist under certain circumstances.
General Epanchin had judged it better to say nothing about it, though, of course, she was well aware of the
fact.
Officially, at large gatherings, everyone said that Countess Bezukhova had died of a terrible attack of angina pectoris, but in intimate circles details were mentioned of how the private physician of the Queen of Spain had prescribed small doses of a certain drug to produce a certain effect; but Helene, tortured by the
fact that the old count suspected her and that her husband to whom she had written (that wretched, profligate Pierre) had not replied, had suddenly taken a very large dose of the drug, and had died in agony before assistance could be rendered her.
I have always felt proud, whenever I think of the incident, that my mother had strength of character enough not to be led into the temptation of seeming to be that which she was not--of trying to impress my schoolmates and others with the
fact that she was able to buy me a "store hat" when she was not.
Or if this postulate is as untenable as all the others, still I am very glad that I did not then lose any
fact of the majesty, and beauty, and pathos of the great certain measures for the sake of that fourth dimension of the poem which is not yet made palpable or visible.
And the
fact that there was a full moon clinched it.
