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subject to variations, and these variations, it has not been
sufficiently remarked in connection with this difference of opinion, is quite
indispensible to their regular action.
I can hardly understand how there could be such
a thing as an unchangeable habit. The great
psychologist, Hume, said that the law of the
association of ideas was a “gentle force.” It
seems to me to be essentially so.

I dwell upon this rule of division, because,
however it may be in other fields, in logic I
am pretty sure that it invariably holds the divisions [it leads to are ??]
the most important. At any rate, though I have never relied upon it,
not seeing any clear reason why it should be
so, and feeling sure that nothing
in logic can be universally true without a
reason, yet I have invariably found its

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