[lbo-talk] Sensible violence?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Jul 12 08:16:52 PDT 2005


Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >As Henry David Thoreau said of suspected
> milk-watering: "Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you
> find a trout in the milk."

That's always been my favorite quote from Thoreau, but I can never remember where I got it from. Where in his writings does it occur?

Did he apply it to circumstantial evidence or to anecdotal evidence? I've always used it for the latter.

Carrol



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