 I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion. For,...  The Elements of Logic: In Four Books ... - Page 144by William Duncan - 1802 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1907 - 574 pages
...true which he does not clearly recognize to be so; " that in all sorts of reasoning, the connection and dependence of ideas should be followed till the...mind is brought to the source on which it bottoms and observes the coherence all along;" and that " the mind should be given a fair and equal view of the... | |
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