XIX.

Should your opponent expressly challenge you to produce any objection

to some definite point in his argument, and you have nothing much to

say, you must try to give the matter a general turn, and then talk

against that. If you are called upon to say why a particular physical

hypothesis cannot be accepted, you may speak of the fallibility of

human knowledge, and give various illustrations of it.

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