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We are but creatures of habit. Luxury is nothing more than contracting fresh habits, and having the means of administering to them ergo, doctor, the more habits you have to gratify, the more luxuries you possess.
Moreover, he was in such a flutter of anticipation over the arrival of his client that Buck deduced two things to wit, that the Mayor had telephoned Henry he was apt to have a client, and that as a result of this miracle, Henry was in no fit state to discuss the sordid subject of fees and retainers. Ergo, Mr. Ogilvy decided to obviate such discussion now or in the future.
"What would you have said to her?" inquired Mrs. Friedland gently. "How can there be any possible doubt what I should have said to her?" said the doctor, slapping his knee. "'My dear, you love him ergo, marry him! That first and foremost. 'And as to those other trifles, what have you to do with them? Look over them look round them!
No matter whether any man speake nor noe: we know he killed the man, and she comanded him, ergo they are guilty; ergoe that must be their confession, scilicet that they are guilty. Write this, Bunch, and then we will perpend, as law and Judgment guides us, whether we will save or condemne. How say you, sir? Crac. Oh well don, uncle!
Furthermore, the British Philistines are to a very large extent dissenters: the United States has no established church; ergo, it must be the Paradise of the dissenter.
We are all willing to admit that other people are thoughtless. But when it comes to ourselves, we feel convinced that we can actually perceive our own thinking. "Cogito, ergo sum" would be regarded by most people as having a true premiss. This, however, the behaviourist denies. He maintains that our knowledge of ourselves is no different in kind from our knowledge of other people.
Philip ruined Greece; the advice of Demosthenes, had it been followed, would have saved her. Superficially considered, all this seems clever reasoning; but it is in fact a stupendous fallacy. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Philip conquered and subsequently things went ill with Greece. A man looked at Mars and subsequently had the cholera. Let us no longer argue so childishly.
When a Russian peasant had overloaded his stomach and some harmless mixture or decoction given him by some of the pseudo physicians had had a good effect post hoc ergo propter hoc the medicine man who had come from far away was highly praised and highly recommended. Lieutenant Furtenbach treated with so-called sympathetic remedies and had a success which surprised nobody more than himself.
All Protestants are Christians; but I am a Protestant; ergo, etc.: as if a marmoset, contending to be a man, overleaping that term as too generic and vulgar, should at once roundly proclaim himself to be a gentleman. The argument would be, as we say, ex abundanti.
The youth came from his lounging-place and moved on, as if inviting me to walk; while he answered, rather with bitter sullenness than the melancholy his words expressed, "One thing, at least, cannot be new to you, it is an old truth with us before we leave the nursery: 'Whatever is worth having must be bought; ergo, he who cannot buy, has nothing worth having."
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