Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes..

If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes spe….

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a ….

A man with so large a brain must have something in it..

What a creature he was! Never have I felt such a horse between my knees. His great haunches gathered under him with every stride, and he shot forward….