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of simplest mathematical kind, in which there is no more danger of error than in the multiplication-table.
Such an examination must be most minute and unsparing in pains must be checked in every conceivable way and must not be allowed to involve a step that is not as evident as that two and three make five.
If that had only been done, a world of wasted effort and time would have been spared.
But in conducting matters of fundamental importance, the majority of mankind are always more negligent, rash, and slipshod than about other things.
They commonly laugh at the idea of such matters being anything more than pass times.
I trust I have now said enough to convince you to the utter falsity of the notion that reasoning is based on a quality of feeling or that such quality of [?ture] efficacious in causing us to reasch any conclusion
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