"And McClellan will win and will lose?"
"Yes."
"I hardly understand, Doctor, what you mean by saying that everything will happen."
"I mean," said he, "that change and eternity are all the conditions necessary to cause everything to come to pass."
"The rebels will win and the North will win?"
"Yes; both of these seemingly contradictory events will happen."
"You surely are a strange puzzle."
"I give myself enough time, do I not?"
"But time can never reconcile a contradiction."
"The contradiction is only seeming."