12th March 2010

Thoreau’s Ruling

Henry David Thoreau

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Source: Journal November 11th 1854

Thoreau’s simile referred to a common nineteenth-century consumer fraud: selling milk that had been adulterated with water.


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