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Ladies and Gentlemen:
For eight abbreviated hours I am to
endeavor to occupy your attention with the
subject of reasoning. But can one person
[strikethrough]tell[/strikethrough] inform another what is good reasoning
and what is bad?
[strikethrough]Sixty-seven[/strikethrough] About seventy generations have passed
since Aristotle gave to logic a scientific
form. There has not been one of those
generations [scratched out] in Europe which has [??] been [??]
[scratched out] with this study's and it is natural
and proper to ask what the harvest has
been. At the end of sixty of these seventy
generations, Europeans reasoned no
better than the personages of Plato's
Dialogues are represented as reasoning.
They were considerable more
adroit and They reached their conclusion
with greater facility; but the conclusions