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would train themselves, not in that medieval way of reasoning that the logic books teach but in the best ways of thinking that modern inquiry can make out.

God forbid that I should waste a single break in trying to induce anybody to control is thoughts who is not inclinced to take the trouble to do so.
My services belong exclusively to those who do want to reason rightly, and who hunger and thirst after it.

When I was appointed to deliver a course have, I recieved several letters from my very best friends telling me, in flattering terms, how very agreeably I could lecture when I chose to make myself agreeable, and pointing out to me how greatly it was for my interest to make these lectures agreeable.
I know well enough that it would be for my interest.
But the world is full of men who for one reason or another, are incapable of consulting their interests; and I am one of them.
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