Beatrice Stobbing with the author's affectionate rendiconting THE HILL SIDE. ILLUSTRATIONS OF SOME OF THE SIMPLEST TERMS USED IN LOGIC. BY THE AUTHOR OF "MARY POWELL." LONDON: ARTHUR HALL, VIRTUE & CO. 25, PATERNOSTER ROW. Now, in this, according to my apprehension, lies the great art of human knowledge; to manage with skill the capacity of the intellect, and contrive such helps as may bring the most wide and extended objects within the compass of its natural powers. DUNCAN'S ELEMENTS, Book iv. TO BEATRICE. IN Germany. July 2, 1850 Now that we have relapsed into our old quiet, I instinctively turn to the pursuits I had found for myself before we were called upon to assist in the pleasures of so many others; and as I run through my little, scholia, I think of you, and fancy I shall get into the old vein better if I imagine you still at my side. Let us briefly go over the old ground, therefore, to iv gether, and then proceed with animation as far as we can. Perhaps the natural objects around me may occasionally supply more attractive illustrations than the dry examples of scholars my care must be, not to let the gay poppies overgrow the useful corn. "Let those who wish to possess the intellect they have received from above, in the depth and clearness, the sober composure, the calm activity which a high degree of culture can alone bestow, venture to study Logic.. My aim is not to teach you Logic, but to enable you to understand some of its simplest terms. * Thomson's Laws of Thought. |