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than his own interest if he is to do much in science. Excepting a few cases in which, not for themselves but for the sake of human knowledge, men have violated the moral law, the whole history of learning does not downright criminal having made an important contribution to our store of truth. But cases are innumerable in which moral faults have prevented men from great achievements in science.

If it were true that every fallacy in reasoning was a sin, logic would be seduced to a branch of moral philosophy. Of course, this is not true; but the learning of ethics upon logic is nevertheless quite intimate. This comes about in several minor ways that will be noticed in the course of this volume, and I am led to suspect that other analogies will be developed as ethics comes to be further developed; for not-

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