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1908 Oct 29
Logic
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having seriously made a business of finding out his
errors, many of the opinions he still holds must be erroneous,
could he only find out which opinions they are, and that
he can will not be able to succeed in achieving his purposes, nor even
be able to form purposes that would be permanently satisfactory to him in
case he should achieve them, unless, having instituted forth-
with and then energetically carried out a systematic
reexamination of his opinions, he thereafter industriously
keeps them weeded out by the best methods he can, When,
either by his own force or by the adroit suggestions of a wise
governor, he has once been led to undertake such a reform, it as
wise a way to begin it as any would be to ask himself, what are
the sorts of objects of which I am directly aware; since, no matter