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a mind of the first rank who is capable of reforming his logical ideals, unless he is sufficiently free from intellectualpride to sit down to a sincere and minute study of logic; and to be willing to do that bespeaks a high quality of mind.
If the defendents were merely endeavoring to prove that a reasoner's ordinary control over his reasonings supposes the perfection of his logical ideals, that conclusion must certainly be admitted.
How vastly different that would be from what they prefess to prove is evident enough.
But it shall not be said that I treat my antagonists mainly [?pin] them down to slips of language or of thought.
Those logicians no doubt imagine that a man's logical ideals are absolutely unchangeable and that they are the same in all men.
Those logicians have made no thorough study of any reasonings except the most childishly simple ones; and in regard to these all educated men's ideals are much the same.
But in