"Probably it had its share. But there were
other things to take into the account. If you went on to ask me whether it
was not Harry's prescriptions; or whether it was not the curate's sermons;
or whether it was not her falling in love with the doctor; or whether even
her father's illness and the loss of their property had not something to
do with it; or whether it was not the doctor's falling in love with her;
or that the cold weather suited her; I should reply in the same way to
every one of the interrogatories."
But I retort another question:
"Did you ever know anything whatever resulting from the operation of one
separable cause?"
In regard to any good attempt I have ever made in my life, I am content to
know that the end has been gained. Whether _I_ have succeeded or not is of
no consequence, if I have tried well.--In the present case, Adela
recovered; and my own conviction is, that the cure was effected mainly
from within. Except in physics, we can put nothing to the _experimentum
crucis_, and must be content with conjecture and probability.
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