pages to shew us—not by simple and calm ratiocina-
tion—that the analogy is unsound; oh no; but with |
a remittent fire of what we are compelled to call un-
meaning abuse. Hear him in port s—we regret that.
we have not room for the whole, (p. 66-7.) “We

think this, perhaps, the most unspeakably preposte-
rous instance of bad reasoning in the whole volume.” |
* * “A child may see through the absurdity of
such an argument.” * * “Sophistry may nestle

among numbers, and a gross fallacy may cheat our

senses by skulking under a formule.” He winds up

facetiously, doubtless, with the subjoined self-gratu-
lative conclusion :—* ‘This is, we think, sound reason-
ing, and all unsophisticated minds will yield assent

‘to it the moment it is proposed to them.” We
(confess it we must, however humiliating) are, by

logical inference, in the category of the suphisti-

cated, being unable, quite, to discern any approach to
soundness in the professor’s method.