21/24 In using a gun, you put yourself in a very little danger of a very great calamity. There's very little probability that your gun would burst, or that you would ever shoot accidentally any other person;--very little indeed. But if the gun were to burst, and blow off one of your arms, or put out your eyes, or if you were to shoot another boy, the calamity would be a very terrible one. So we call it a great risk." "It seems to be a small risk of a great calamity," said Marco. We call the risk great, when either the evil which we are in danger of is great, or when the chance of its befalling us is great. |