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GRAMMAR OF LOGIC

AND

INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY,

ON

DIDACTIC PRINCIPLES;

FOR THE USE OF

COLLEGES, SCHOOLS, AND PRIVATE INSTRUCTION.

BY ALEXANDER JAMIESON,

"

AUTHOR OF A TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF MAPS, A GRAMMAR OF RHETORIC
AND POLITE LITERATURE, CONVERSATIONS ON GENERAL HISTORY, EDITOR
OF THE FIFTH AND IMPROVED EDITION OF ADAMS'S ELEMENTS

OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE, &c. &c..

Understanding is a well-spring of life to him that hath it.

Prov. xvi. 22.

Fifth Edition, Stereotyped.

NEW HAVEN:

PUBLISHED BY A. H. MALTBY.'

AND SOLD BY HILLIARD, GRAY, AND CO., BOSTON; B. AND S. COLLINS,
N. AND J. WHITE, D. APPLEton and co., NEW YORK; GRIGG
AND ELLIOTT, PHILADELPHIA; FIELDING LUCAS, Jun.,
BALTIMORE; S. BABCOCK AND CO., CHARLESTON;

TRUMAN AND SMITH, CINCINNATI.

1835.

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INTRODUCTION.Educ

Lib.

GRAMMAR, LOGIC, and RHETORIC are the handmaids of LITERATURE, SCIENCE and PHILOSOPHY. The study of grammar is the study of LANGUAGE, and MEMORY is the faculty which it chiefly employs and exercises. But in proceeding towards the cultivation of TASTE and GENIUS, the acquisition of SCIENCE, and other ulterior objects of education, the faculties most susceptible of improvement and refinement are the IMAGINATION and the

UNDERSTANDING.

POLITE LITERATURE is addressed to the IMAGINATION and the UNDERSTANDING in conjunction; SCIENCE is addressed to the UNDERSTANDING alone.

With the view, therefore, of conducting youth from the mere exercise of memory, in the study of language, towards investigations on the powers of the understanding, in the regions of science, my GRAMMAR of RHETORIC and POLITE LITERATURE professes, by a proper gradation, to occupy the mind, for some time, in those agreeable prospects exhibited to the imagination, and in those interesting speculations, also, addressed to the understanding, with which the arts of speaking and writing so amply abound.

But the most successful initiation and discipline into the researches of philosophy, are disquisitions about the objects with which we are familiar, and inquiries into the operations of the human mind, which we every day experience. And LOGIC has been justly styled the history of the human mind, inasmuch as it traces the progress of our knowledge, from our first and simple perceptions, through all their different combinations, and all those numerous deductions, that result from variously comparing them one with another. For it is thus, only, that we are let into the frame and contexture of our own minds,-that we learn in what manner we ought to conduct our thoughts, in order to arrive at truth, and avoid error,-that we see how to build one discovery upon another, and, by preserving the chain of reasoning uniform and unbroken, to pursue the relations of things through all their labyrinths and windings, and at length exhibit them to the view of the soul with all the advantages of light and conviction.

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