375-389) with those tacitly assumed in 'Supernatural Religion.' The inference in the one case seems to be 'possible, therefore true,' in the other, 'not probable, or not confirmed, therefore false.' Surely neither of these tallies with experience.
[352:1] This, perhaps, is one that is apt to be overlooked.

In order to be quite sure that the process of analysis is complete it must be supplemented and verified by the reversed process of synthesis.

If a compound has been resolved into its elements, we cannot be sure that it has been resolved into _all_ its elements until the original compound has been produced by their recombination.

Where this second reverse process fails, the inference is that some unknown element which was originally present has escaped in the analysis.

The analysis may be true as far as it goes, but it is incomplete.