[17]
is not wholly unreasonable. Still no one
should interpret it to mean that you must stop short
of nothing. For the Greeks are right when they
lay it down as a rule that we should not attempt
the impossible. But whenever the double-barrelled
defence of which I am speaking is employed, we
must aim at making the first argument support the
credibility of the second. For he who might without danger to himself have confessed to the commission of the act, can have no motive for lying
when he denies the commission.
[p. 147]
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