Reply #35: In Essence, Mr. Shance

[The Magistrate]

You are asking for proof a ton weighs more than a pound. Some operations, involving cartoon anvils, suggest themselves immediately to the mind. To observe that a toddler can push a toy truck about the floor is no demonstration even a dozen toddlers could shove an eighteen-wheeler out of a parking lot; it is not in the least unreasonable to suggest an upper limit, based on knowledge of the available forces, and of the amount of work required to achieve a result on a certain scale. Nor, put bluntly, is any number of years at university training required to see it; though you confess your ignorance of the subject, even this degree of understanding concerning it is readily within your reach. That you seem to have a predisposition towards the belief in a "Hidden Hand" behind all occurances is the only obstacle to your doing so.