Bookbag (0)
Search:
Path::modern_english::uvaGenText::tei::PoeMyst.xml in subject [X]
University of Virginia Library, Text collection in subject [X]
UVA-LIB-Text in subject [X]
Modify Search | New Search
Results:  1 ItemBrowse by Facet | Title | Author
Sorted by:  
Page: 1
Subject
collapsePath
collapsemodern_english
collapseuvaGenText
collapsetei
•PoeMyst.xml[X]
•UVA-LIB-Text[X]
•University of Virginia Library, Text collection[X]
Date
expand1994 (1)
1Author:  Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849Add
 Title:  The Mystery of Marie Roget  
 Published:  1994 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half-credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them. Such sentiments — for the half-credences of which I speak have never the full force of thought — such sentiments are seldom thoroughly stifled unless by reference to the doctrine of chance, or, as it is technically termed, the Calculus of Probabilities. Now this Calculus is, in its essence, purely mathematical; and thus we have the anomaly of the most rigidly exact in science applied to the shadow and spirituality of the most intangible in speculation.
 Similar Items:  Find