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This pleased her mightily, so that she boasted everywhere of it; but withal she was an excellent old woman, only the neighbours looked rather jealously on her. This same priest, with all his goodness and learning, was yet a bad logician; for by his careless speaking in one of his sermons, much commotion was raised in the village.
Some reasoners quibble about everlasting and eternal; and the great Catholic logician "submits the whole subject to the theological school," a process which I do not quite understand, though I assume it to be consolatory. The doctrine, in short, can hardly be made tangible without shocking men's consciences and understandings.
"I am no logician," I answered; "I only know when I don't know a thing. My uncle has taught me that wisdom lies in that," "Yours must be a very unusual kind of uncle!" he returned. "If God had made many men like my uncle, I think the world wouldn't be the same place." "I wonder why he didn't!" he said thoughtfully. "I have wondered much, and cannot tell," I replied.
A logician who tries to scoff away any faith I count as almost criminal. Mockery is the fume of little hearts, and the worst and craziest of mockers is the one who grins in presence of a mystery that strikes wise and deep-hearted men with a solemn fear which has in it nothing ignoble.
O profound logician! you accept that notion, yet hold my belief in the Dervish's tale a chimera! I am Grayle made young by the elixir, and yet the elixir itself is a fable!" He paused and laughed, but the laugh was no longer even an echo of its former merriment or playfulness, a sinister and terrible laugh, mocking, threatening, malignant. Again he swept his hand over his brow, and resumed,
There was silence in the study now as the lad modestly seated himself in a chair which the pastor had pointed out. After fidgeting a few moments, he addressed the logician with a stupefying premise: "My great-grandfather," he said, "once built a church simply to God, not to any man's opinions of Him." He broke off abruptly. "So did Voltaire," remarked the pastor dryly, coming to the rescue.
As it is, it may be said, that in company he talks well, but too much; that in writing he overlays the original subject and spirit of the composition, by an appeal to authorities and by too formal a method; that in public speaking the logician takes place of the orator, and that he fails to give effect to a particular point or to urge an immediate advantage home upon his adversary from the enlarged scope of his mind, and the wide career he takes in the field of argument.
But there is, of course, a further stage reached by the logician in which he not merely reacts with the word "dog," but sets to work to discover what it is in the environment that causes in him this almost identical reaction on different occasions.
Would you say this, Hester?" She began her reading on an abstract subject which was a theme worthy of a logician and Hester was compelled to listen. Meanwhile, down in Fifty-four, a number of girls had gathered. Erma was making good use of the chafing-dish while Renee was passing salt wafers and blanched almonds. Erma was laughing merrily, as she poured the cocoa.
I deny the definition Death is the separation of the soul from the body, said his antagonist Then we don't agree about our weapons, said the logician Then there is an end of the dispute, replied the antagonist. The civilians were still more concise: what they offered being more in the nature of a decree than a dispute.
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