[431] "History of Civilization."
[432] Comte, "Positive Philosophy," vol. i. p. 45.
[433] "No record of coincidences can prove a causal connection, or even suggest it—unless the instances are exceptionally numerous, and unless other causes leading to the result are excluded by the rigid methods of verification."—"Prayer: 'The Two Spheres:' They are Two,"Contemporary Review, Dec., 1873, p. 39.
[434] See pp. 386-7.
[435] Dr. Tuke, "Influence of the Mind on the Body in Health and Disease," p. 351.
[436] "Fragments of Science," pp. 36-39.
[437] "Fragments of Science," p. 40: "The assumed permanence of natural laws."
[438] Ibid., p. 60.
[439] "Fragments of Science," p. 64.
[440] Jevons, "Principles of Science," vol. ii. p. 434.