t sight, to dispose of
| the difficulty mentioned.  Yet the case of the other side
| is not yet exhausted.  Although probability will probably
| manifest its effect in, say, a thousand risks, by a certain
| proportion between the numbers of successes and failures,
| yet this, as we have seen, is only to say that it certainly
| will, at length, do so.  Now the number of risks, the number
| of probable inferences, which a man draws in his whole life,
| is a finite one, and he cannot be absolutely 'certain' th