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"The relations of capital and labour have never been more simply or more clearly expounded."CONTEMPORARY REVIEW. LOGIC. ELEMENTARY LESSONS IN LOGIC; Deductive and Inductive, with copious Questions and Examples, and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms. By W. STANLEY JEVONS, M. A., Professor of Logic in Owens College, Manchester. New Edition. 18mo. 3s. 6d. In preparing these Lessons the author has attempted to show that Logic, even in its traditional form, can be made a highly useful subject of study, and a powerful means of mental exercise. With this view he has avoided the use of superfluous technical terms, and has abstained from entering into questions of a purely speculative or metaphysical character. For the puerile illustrations too often found in works on Logic, examples drawn |
