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 of being smoked. So far good; and since tobacco is evidently neither continuous—i. e., lasting to infinity—nor temporary—i. e., lasting for a long course of years—nor yet indeterminate, for it does not vanish out of our sight, but leaves ashes, we may with safteysafety [sic] declare it to be determinate, existing in the three modes above-named.

This granted, let us consider tobacco existing in privation, that is, before it is placed in position—id est, combustion. Now, since the whole universe and all contained in it may by a comprehensive dichotomy be divided into that which belongs to oneself and that which does not, it appears plain that all the tobacco in the world may be, as far as I am concerned, also divided into that which I have and that which I have not. (And I may remark, by the way, that at this moment I possess about four ounces of the herb to set against the other somewhat larger member of the dichotomy—that which I have not.) But before I can smoke it is necessary that I do