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An unpenetrating study of the rules of Graphs would not much
more aid a person to comprehend the common nature of the significance
of thoughts than would an unpenetrating study of Greek or Gaelic grammar,
the which would in its turn avail for the same purpose not very much
more than would an unpenetrating study of the psychology of
thinking. Now that would advance the problem no whit more than
would the examination of the brain under a microscope, provided we
could manage two things; first, to see how the whips of the brain-cells
are thrashed about in life; and secondly, to recognize the significance
of each lash. Those two things would, I dare say, do wonders for
psychology; but they would probably not answer our logical purpose so well as will the
study of the graphs.

How many writers of our generation, (if I must call names, in order to