21 Sept. 1804

Evidence

Circumstantial

Ch Failure Causes

§ Delinquency - Fear

 Add ambiguity on [...?] fear and anger? depending on idiosyncrasy.

A sort of compound evidentiary fact composed of the symptoms in question and the occasion which brought them under observation will therefore in general constitute the slightest article of evidence that on the occasion in question can come to be adduced: and the probative force of this compound fact is the force which any infirmative facts of which the case may be found susceptible, will have to combat. Let us proceed in our inquiry of these informative facts.