 Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude; first shoot round corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. Tell men to gain notions of a Creator from His works, and, if they were to set about it (which nobody does), they would...  Teaching the Drama and the Essay - Page 23de Francis Meehan - 1921 - 81 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | John Henry Newman - 1870 - 500 pages
...way, they cannot walk straight themselves, and do not feel it quite their business at all. " Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude ; first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. Tell men to gain notions of a Creator from His works, and, if they were to set about it... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1870 - 514 pages
...way, they cannot walk straight themselves, and do not feel it quite their business at all. " Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude ; first shoot round corners, and you may not de spair of converting by a syllogism. Tell men to gain notions of a Creator from His works, and, if... | |
 | George Park Fisher - 1879 - 200 pages
...insufficiency of logic as a means of awakening religious faith is obvious to wise men. Says a great writer : " First shoot round corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism." " Logicians are more set upon concluding rightly, than upon right conclusions." "After... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...they cannot walk straight themselves, and do not feel it quite their business to walk at all. Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude; first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. Tell men to gain notions of a Creator from his works, and, if they were to set about it,... | |
 | Lewis Edwards Gates - 1899 - 228 pages
...into the popular consciousness, and of giving it a place among the determining powers of life. "Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude ; first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism." Men must be inveigled into the acceptance of truth ; they cannot be driven to accept... | |
 | John Joseph Toohey - 1906 - 246 pages
...ancient and modern, as continually given in their sayings and doings, 176, 316-17; 494. LOGIC: logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude; first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism, 94 (vide CONCLUSION, and SYLLOGISM); logic is not the measure of assent, 180 (vide ARGUMENT,... | |
 | 1913 - 906 pages
...him when he shows us his method as a vital process. We know now what he means when he says : " Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude ; first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism."! And again : " It is the mind that reasons or assents, not a diagram on paper."§ The... | |
 | Joseph Rickaby - 1914 - 178 pages
...Idea, 94. 95 : ' logic is brought in to arrange what no science was employed in gaining,' Dev., 190: 'first shoot round corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism,' DA, 294 : OA, 425 : no argument so strong but the wilful ingenuity of man is able to... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 372 pages
...they cannot walk straight themselves, and do not ,feel it quite their business to walk at all. Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude: first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. Tell men to gain notions of a Creator from His. works, and, if they were to set about... | |
 | 1918 - 388 pages
...us. Many a man will live and die upon a dogma : no man will be a martyr for a conclusion. . . . Logic makes but a sorry rhetoric with the multitude ; first...corners, and you may not despair of converting by a syllogism. ... To most men argument makes the point in hand only more doubtful, and considerably... | |
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