But the moment we begin to meet both parties half way, there comes in that crucial question: Why do you accept just so much and no more?
Why do you deny just so much and no more?
[Endnote 354:1] It must, in candour, be confessed that the synthetic formula for the middle party in opinion has not yet been found.

Other parties have their formulae, but none that will really bear examination.

_Quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus_, would do excellently if there was any belief that had been held 'always, everywhere, and by all,' if no discoveries had been made as to the facts, and if there had been no advance in the methods of knowledge.

The ultimate universality and the absolute uniformity of physical antecedents has a plausible appearance until it is seen that logically carried out it reduces men to machines, annihilates responsibility, and involves conclusions on the assumption of the truth of which society could not hold together for a single day.
If we abandon these Macedonian methods for unloosing the Gordian knot of things and keep to the slow and laborious way of gradual induction, then I think it will be clear that all opinions must be held on the most provisional tenure.

A vast number of problems will need to be worked out before any can be said to be established with a pretence to finality.