Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation No man without the logical quality of mind can get great advantage from the formal study of logic. He may learn all about the syllogism, the premise, the middle term and the conclusion, and he may even be able to discern between a genuine and a spurious argument, but if he lack in the logical mind this knowledge will avail him little. Lincoln never had the advantage of the logic of the schools but it is hard to find a man whose sentences show more of the law of natural sequence ...
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Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln: An Appreciation No man without the logical quality of mind can get great advantage from the formal study of logic. He may learn all about the syllogism, the premise, the middle term and the conclusion, and he may even be able to discern between a genuine and a spurious argument, but if he lack in the logical mind this knowledge will avail him little. Lincoln never had the advantage of the logic of the schools but it is hard to find a man whose sentences show more of the law of natural sequence than do his. His manner was severely logical and his style, taking counsel of his musi cal ear, became as'chaste as that of Addison. When one re ects that he had spent his youth and early manhood among a people whose speechwas a dialect his nicety in the choice of words and his power in the collocation of them are simply bewildering. But this is capable of ex planation when it is remembered that he had early formed the habit of holding hlmself to the complete mastery of anything which he undertook and of clothing his thought in the most befitting dress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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