It is such considerations that necessitate the harmonising mediation of reason, which tests our beliefs by their mutual compatibility, and examines, in doubtful cases, the possible sources of error on the one side and on the other.

正是这样的考虑使得理性的协调调解成为必要，理性通过它们的相互兼容性来检验我们的信念，并在有疑问的情况下检查一方面和另一方面可能的错误来源。

In doubtful cases such courts, from their anxiety to avoid blame, would naturally endeavour to shelter themselves under the example or precedent of the judges who had sat before them, either in the same or in some other court.

在有疑问的案件中，这些法院出于避免受到指责的焦虑，自然会努力以在同一法院或其他法院开庭的法官的榜样或先例为自己辩护。