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although they are not quite so familiar to you as these of morals because there are no [?ergemen] whose business it is to keep them before your minds, you will nevertheless remark without difficulty that a person who draws a rational conclusion, not only thinks it to be true, but thinks that similar reasoning would be just in every analogous case.
If he fails to think this, the inference is not to be called reasoning.
It is merely an idea suggested to his mind and which he cannot resist thinking is true.
But not having been subjected to any check or contral, it is not deliberately approved and is not to be called reasoning.
To call it so would be to ignore a distinction which it ill becomes a rational being to overlook.
To be sure every inference forces itself upon us irresistibly.
That is to say, it is irresistible at the instant it just suggests itself.
Nevertheless,