pages to shew us-not by simple and calm ratiocination-that the analogy is unsound; oh no; but with  a remittent fire of what we are compelled to call unmeaning 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 preposterous 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-gratolative conclusion :-* 'This is, we think, sound reasoning, 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 suphisticated, being unable, quite, to discern any approach to soundness in the professor's method.