The maxim of the stick and cakes. When a stick [Page0652-b+ 57] and cakes are tied together, and one says that ‘the stick has been pull- ed down or eaten by a rat’, we are naturally led to expect that the cakes also have been pul- led down or eaten by the rat, as a matter of course, the two being so closely connected together; so, when one thing is closely connected with another in a particular way, and we say...