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is the living bacillus of its infection at last so much attention as is requisite to seeing the point of it.
If men only would do that, the situation would be saved.
But one must indeed be both sangume and inexperienced to [ex?] any such hope.

This false notion of reasoning assumes different shapes.
In outward dress they vary much; nor are they in essence quite identical.
But one tangle of ideas is common to the all.
This tangle leads to the conclusion that there is no distinction of good and bad reasoning.
This opinion, or very nearly this, is widely spread in Germany.
Few of the German text books of logic of the XIXth Century, for example, recognize such a thing as a fallacy.
The opinion is supported by various arguments all more or less similar I have never met nor have been able to contrive, any which was altogether free from every other fault than that one blunder