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I had succeeded in making myself acquainted with the principal points
in the substance of teachings of this system, recognizing them as
true though I could know nothing of their resulting from any such
picture of mind.

I do not claim that the Graphs furnish a perfect picture of any reasoning
in respect to being photographically detailed, or that they fully represent
all kinds of reasoning (though they approach doing this closer than
might be supposed), or finally, that in their present state they are free from all faults.

Nor, as appears from what I have been saying, can I claim for the system that
it is indispensable to achieving a comprehension of the structure and working
of thought; but what I can, and do, claim for it is that it provides
a singular and signal facilitation of that achievement, by
so imaging the otherwise nebulous, ghostlike, dubious
abstractions of metaphysics as to endue them with
something of the distinctness of geometrical diagrams and with much of the convincingness
of working models. Only, in order that this result should be
attained, it is requisite that the reader should fully understand