The complete online text of A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells.

William Dean Howells, whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Langhorne Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his...

William Dean Howells , whose literary career began on the eve of the Civil War and ended after World War I, is one of the three most important American writers of the late nineteenth century. Samuel Clemens and Henry James, both of whom were his close fr...

William Dean Howells combined a career as an important novelist with that of a journalist. As editor of The Atlantic Monthly and later as author of, or contributor to, the "Editor's Study" and "Editor's Easy Chair" columns in Harper's Monthly, he was an...

The protection given by Bayesian theory against sampling to a foregone conclusion may be constrained in several situations although it is based on the law of total probability. The first is when an inference is based on an improper prior. The second is in...

BILL PENNINGTON, Sports Columnist The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 01-21-1995 THIS PARTY A FOREGONE CONCLUSION By BILL PENNINGTON, Sports Columnist Date: 01-21-1995, Saturday Section: SPORTS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star B, Two Star P, One Star NEW YORK -- On the...

Is there a way to guarantee that the person who is elected President of the United States in 2008 will be someone who intends to end the war in Iraq as soon as possible? Yes, there is -- by making sure that the 2008 presidential...