“I thought I should for once like to trace the origin of one of these fabulous tales.”
Our own acceptance is that justice can not be in an intermediate existence, in which there can be approximation only to justice or to injustice; that to be fair is to have no opinion at all; that to be honest is to be uninterested; that to investigate is to admit prejudice; that nobody has ever really investigated anything, but has always sought positively to prove or disprove something that was conceived of, or suspected, in advance.
“As I suspected,” says the correspondent, “I found that the snails were of a familiar land-species”—that they had been upon the ground “in the first place.”
He found that the snails had appeared after the rain: that “astonished rustics had jumped to the conclusion that t
