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picking up Whateley's Logic in my elder brother's room, and
asking him what logic was. I next see myself stretched on
his carpet, devouring the book; and subsequent tests showed
that I must, in those days have mastered it. I have, ever
since, had a strong passion for logic, although my training was
particularly in the direction of mathematics, physics,
and chemistry. In 1887, when I had attained a standing
among American scientific men sufficient to satisfy
a man of very little ambition, I retired to the wildest