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Passing now to the defendent argument about reasoning, let us as before begin by considering what the facts are.
No preachers and teachers have continually directed our attention to these, as they have to the moral phenomena; but we shall have no difficulty in making them out.
We shall be aided by the parallel which exists between logic ethics.
Logical thought is self-controlled thought, as moral conduct is self-controlled conduct.
When we reason, one belief, our belief in our premisses irresistibly causes another belief, our belief in the conclusion.
It does this in accordance with logical habit or disposition become impressed upon the [?aid]
But if this is all, we do not dignify the passage of thought by the name of reasoning.
In reasoning, we not only hold the conclusion to be true, but we think that in every analogous case we should be justified in drawing a similar conclusion.