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1908 Nov 2
Logic
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native good sense would implant, that he will not succeed
in achieving has purposes,--nay, that he will not be able so much
as to form purposes that would be permanently satisfactory to him
in case he should achieve them, unless, having instituted, the sooner
the better, and then energetically carried out a systematic reëxamin-
nation of his opinions, he thereafter industriously keeps them weeded
out by the best methods he can.
Thinking so, and carrying out the idea may not
be far removed in an ardent lad. But when by his own
activity or by the adroit suggestions of a wise and tactful
governor he has been led to undertake such a reform, he
can hardly begin better than by asking himself, 'what are
the different sorts of objects of which I am directly aware;