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Walsham spoke, the memory of his old school and college days came across him. "That is the argumentum ad hominem, Mrs. Walsham, and when a lady takes to that we can say no more. You know I like your boy. There is much that is good in him; but it struck me that you were letting him run a little too wild.
Besides, I thought" argumentum ad hominem "that she was entitled to show that dress; hers was described, too." "Um!" said her father, soberly, with a sidelong glance towards his pigeon-holes. "But no picture." "Well, let that pass," responded Bingham, with a slight touch of pique. "Is this the Miss Marshall who read lately at the Fortnightly?" "Yes."
But putting aside for the present this argumentum ad hominem which seems to follow from the admission here made, there is, I think, the strongest reason to conclude that in the present case the first Evangelist is not merely reproducing his ground document. There is one element in the question which the author has omitted to notice; that is, the parallel passage in St. Mark.
This is purely an argumentum ad hominem, for Maimonides does not regard the sublunar and superlunar worlds as independent of each other. He recognizes the unity of the universe.
To endeavour to combine the two arguments by saying that they were adapted to different states of mind, was plausible; yet it conceded, that neither of the two went to the bottom of human thought, or showed what were the real fixed points of man's knowledge; without knowing which, we are in perpetual danger of mere argumentum ad hominem, or, in fact, arguing in a circle; as to prove miracles from doctrine, and doctrine from miracles.
The chaplet of my days tumbles into a cast of disconnected beads as soon as the thread of inner necessity is drawn out by the preposterous indeterminist doctrine. Messrs. Fullerton and McTaggart have recently laid about them doughtily with this argument. It may be good ad hominem, but otherwise it is pitiful.
How just was his remark! how felicitous the illustration of the blue chamber! how rude and overbearing was the argumentum ad hominem of Johnson, when he felt that he had the worst of the argument! The conversation turned upon ghosts!
His indignant answer was, by a retorted question Quid hominem occidere? what do I think of murder? In this particular case, as in some others, we must allow that our worthy ancestors and forerunners upon this terraqueous planet were enormous blockheads.
In the present state of our knowledge upon this point I should consider such doubts merely as a proof that the sceptic had either not examined the evidence, or, having examined it, refused to accept its plain and unavoidable consequences. I should be sorry to think, with Dr. Rigby, that it was a case of "oblique vision"; I should be unwilling to force home the argumentum ad hominem of Dr.
"Some people may believe it, but many don't; and it can never be proved." "No; and so I am driven back upon my argument ad hominem. Do not you, as a matter of fact, believe it?" "No, I don't know that I do." "Do you believe then that there is nothing which is good for people in general?" "I don't see what is to prevent my believing it." "But, at any rate you do not act as if you believed it."
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