8. Fair testimony, and the nature of the thing indifferent, produce unavoidable assent.
III. In things that happen
indifferently, as that a bird should fly this or that way; that it should thunder on a man's right or left hand, etc.,
when any particular matter of fact is vouched by the concurrent testimony of unsuspected witnesses, there our
assent is also unavoidable. Thus: that there is such a city in Italy as Rome: that about one thousand seven hundred
years ago, there lived in it a man, called Julius Caesar; that he was a general, and that he won a battle against
another, called Pompey. This, though in the nature of the thing there be nothing for nor against it, yet being
related by historians of credit, and contradicted by no one writer, a man cannot avoid believing it, and can as little
doubt of it as he does of the being and actions of his own acquaintance, whereof he himself is a witness.
