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of feeling, instead of the matter of truth that it is, is mighty.
In the bald form in which I stated the argument, probably no serious writer would subscribe to it.
In five or six hundred pages, every sentence and clause of which is muddily and inaccurately expressed, one can mind oneself and ones readers into a state of vague opinion that will hardly bear the light of plain statement.
Ask any of these writers flatly whether blunders may not be committed in reasoning, and of course he must answer "yes" us he answered at all.
But he puts aside blunders.
He thinks them not worthy of serious consideration.
That explains his committinh so many.
It is a bad plan to entertain contempt for pertinent facts.
It is a bad plan, when one's attention is drawn to a familiar fact that conflicts with the logical conclusion to one's reasoning, supposing that there is any