624 Slide – American State Trials 1918 Volume X Leo Frank Document

592 X, AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

according to Censorinns, supported by the single argument
of an egg.* For they said no egg was produced without a
bird, and no dird withont an egg; and as it never could be
shown which was first formed, it followed that the world had
no beginning. We might have shown upon the authority of
Aristophanes, how the world was produced by divine love,
and divine love from the egg of night, hatched by chaos, If
we had been prepared to go into eternity, there would have
been a range! ‘There was a subject fit for philosophy—one
never to be determined.

Touching the old cow that was killed, I can only say that
whatever Doctor Mitchill says he saw, I believe as if I had
seen it; I therefore believe he saw a cripple playing with a
eooper’s knife, and playing with it between his toea. I be-
lieve, also, that the neighboring gomips told him the story
of the dead cow; but I am not bound to believe all they eaid.
‘When such facts occur, it is s0 natural to run the back scent,
and if memery does not furnish something, invention will.
I onee, however, saw a man who was born without arms, but
his father had killed no cow,

It is a good rule, that golden rule of King Charles, to be-
Tieve the half of what we hear. It is a good rule of juris-
prudence to reject all hearsay evidence ; and it is a good rule
to reject a great deal more, A man made a fortune by wager-
ing to the contrary of what everybody said. If his maxim
was true in common life, how much more so in philosophy?

The attorney’s cage in Haddington’s poems, with the dif-
ference only between black and white, is a case in point. He
‘was an awkward fellow to upset his ink in his wife’s lap. It
was such an ill-natured return for her caresses, ingratitude
or so black a dye, that he deserved his fate.

The world has been in ignorance on another subject which
this trial has promulgated. First, all negroes were supposed
to be black. In process of time it waa discovered that some
‘were white—and now it appears that othera are piebald. He

*Negant omnina poses reperiri aveana ante an ova generata sint
Cum at ovum sine ave et avis sine ovo gigni non possit.