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strangely overlooked by almost all logicians.
I mean ethics.
It is not necessary to be an acute reasoner in order to develope the truest moral conceptions but I do aver and will prove beyond dispute that in order to reason well except in a mere mathematical way it is absolutely necessary to possess not merely such virtues as intellectual honestly and sincerity and a real love of truth but the higher moral conceptions.
I will not clain that the study of ethics is more directly conducive to good morals than say the reading of good poetry is condusive to the writing of good prose.
But I will say that it affords a quite indespensible help to the understanding of logic.
It is moreover a subtle sort of study such as a person who is fond of logic cannot but find to