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In the accompanying photographs, the hand of a cool, yet enthusiastic, ratiocinative spirit will be found to bear a palpable affinity to others whose possessors come under this head, and yet be utterly antagonistic to Carlyle's, or to another type, Cardinal Manning's.
He has neither a lofty imaginative capacity nor a dashing ratiocinative faculty, but he has a clear sense of the importance of his pastoral duties, he goes easily and earnestly to work, makes neither much fuss nor smoke, and if he does now and then seem to pull queer faces in his sermons give odd twists to some of his muscles that does not debar him from preaching fair even-sounding sermons, soothing to his general hearers and pleasing to those who have to pay him.
Garneret gave his views on women. He had a judicial mind, had Garneret, and could account for everything in the relations of the sexes; but he could not tell Jean why one face glimpsed among a thousand gives joy and grief more than life itself seemed able to contain. Still, he tried to explain the problem, for he was of an eminently ratiocinative temper. "The thing is quite simple," he declared.
The remainder of the correspondence referred to other matters and social engagements, all which latter fixtures the barrister had summarily broken. Winter was announced. His face heralded important tidings. "Well, how goes the ratiocinative process? was Brett's greeting. "I don't know him," said the detective.
The argument if we may apply so definite a name to a process which is continually forced to appeal to something that may perhaps be higher, but is certainly other than the ratiocinative faculty is founded partly on moral and partly on intellectual considerations.
"Not the car; but people in motors either whizz through of a morning going away down the coast, or whizz back again of an evening returning to New York." "Ah!" put in Carshaw, "here is a pretty head which holds brains. It goes in for ratiocinative reasoning. Now, I'll be bound to say that this pretty head, which thinks, can help us."
Still, his high appreciation of a book which was at any rate an example of a mode of treating the question of government almost the reverse of his wholly inductive and analytical, instead of purely ratiocinative gave me great encouragement.
As to his sincerity there cannot be a question. He is not profound, but is very honest; he has nothing strongly ratiocinative in him, but he has for ever of earnestness in his composition indeed he burns himself up in a great blaze of zeal and blows himself to pieces in a self-generated whirlwind.
This being the case, imperfect as is the condition of barbarous states, still what is there to overthrow them? They have a principle of union congenial to the state of their intellect, and they have not the ratiocinative habit to scrutinize and invalidate it.
The considerations now stated remove a serious difficulty from the view we have taken of reasoning; which view might otherwise have seemed not easily reconcilable with the fact that there are Deductive or Ratiocinative Sciences.
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