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clasical Latin correctly, and still more, to speak it elegantly, indeed was
an intellectual accomplishment far beyond a similar mastery of English; so
that logic was not so much greatly degraded in being classed with grammar and rhetoric;
especially since the logic of Romans was trivial even in the modern
sense. The Summulae Logicales was the text-book universally used in the schools from
the middle of the XVIIth century, if not earlier, in some recension, and I think
was based upon the tradition of some Roman schools. Certainly, the notion
of its being a translation from the Greek book of a that goes by the is supposed, with little reason, to have
been written by somebody of the name of Michael [Preblus?], but cannot
be the work of the celebrated writer of that name, is one of the most foolist hypotheses
of the foolish hypotheses that a historian of logic ever put forth.