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{Left margin, top of page: "Logic 17"}

in this science errors become enormously magnified in their effects; and stricter accuracy is so rendered obligatory. No distinction,--the reader may assure himself,--will have to be insisted upon without an adequate motive, even if it be mistaken.

{Left margin, next to first sentence of paragraph below: "Excuse for the Unpersevering Reader."}

The reader may find the matter so dry, husky, and innutritious to the spirit that he cannot believe there is any human good in it. Stuff which offers no images more enlivening that that Socrates is a man and therefore mortal or that of a person who stands to some woman in the relation of a lover of every benefactor of hers, may be too desperately inhuman to be accounted by him anything but diabolical idiocy, the product of hell's bedlam. But the fault is his. It shall not be more tedious than the multiplication table, that may be promised; and as the multiplication table is worth the pains of learning, unless one is a prince, so shall this be, even if one

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