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to logic, and perhaps it is so. Yet it illustrates the
point that the valuable idea must be the eminently
fruitful in special applications, while
at the same time it is always growing to wider
and wider alliances.

Classical antiquity was far too favorable
to the sort of concept that was
fortis, et in se ipso totus teres atque rotundus.
I often meet with such theories in philosophical books, especially
in the works of theological students and
of others who draw their ideas from antiquity.
Such is the circular theory, which assumes
itself and returns into itself,— the aristocratical
theory which holds itself aloof
from vulgar facts. Logic has not the least

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