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in no condition to learn.
It is a very different frame of mind from mine.
In the first place it is of each of my logical opinions and not af all of which I entertain no definite doubt.
In the second place I do not let any occasion slip which might afford me a means of doubting.
If you will continue to listen to my lectures perhaps you may come to doubt some of your logical standards.
I think it probable that you will find reason to do so.

Now that you have heard my refutation of this argument which nobody can say I have not treated more than fairly, I dare say some of you wish me to explain how such a pedantical and silly fallacy could produce a disease in the great body of science.
I have not time to tell the whole story; but I will give you some hint of it.
The Prussian has a naive sense of official dignity which in university professora takes a form that it is not quite just to call pedantry but which I hardly know how