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influence our future actions, so the reflexions which we have made at different times about reasonings have created in us certain ideals of reasonings, the whole body of which might be called logical synderesis.
If we take these ideals to heart, modifications of our tendencies to draw conclusions will be produced logcial determinations of the mind; so that although the conclusions are irresistible at the time they are drawn, they are influenced by previous reflexions.
Moreover, no sooner have we drawn a conclusion, that we begin to turn upon it a critic's eye, and to ask ourselves whether it reallly conformed to our logical ideals.
Indeed, unless we do this, in the proper use of language the operation ought not to be called reasoning; for reasoning properly means controlled thought and the only possible control consists in critical review, or self-con-