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And so, ta-ta. I might as well have stayed away for any good I've done. Say good-bye from me to Stasie, and to the sullen hang-dog of a stable-boy, if you insist on it; I'm off." And Casimir departed. The Doctor, that night, dissected his character before Anastasie. "One thing, my beautiful," he said, "he has learned one thing from his lifelong acquaintance with your husband: the word ratiocinate.
Your own would have followed; and you would have come to me in a procession like the last time. But I give you warning Stasie may weep and Henri ratiocinate it will not serve you twice. Your next collapse will be fatal. I thought I had told you so, Stasie? Hey? No sense?" The Doctor winced and looked furtively at Jean-Marie; but the boy seemed apathetic.
Your own would have followed; and you would have come to me in a procession like the last time. But I give you warning Stasie may weep and Henri ratiocinate it will not serve you twice. Your next collapse will be fatal. I thought I had told you so, Stasie? Hey? No sense? The Doctor winced and looked furtively at Jean-Marie; but the boy seemed apathetic.
We do not ratiocinate, we run. All the primary instincts of mankind act similarly. Take, for contrast, the instinct of curiosity. Consider a child watching a mechanical toy; the impulse of this instinct of curiosity is such that he goes to the thing and examines it.
If one is struck by the magnificence of the great towns of the Continent, one should ratiocinate, and conclude that a major characteristic of the great towns of England is their shabby and higgledy-piggledy slovenliness. It is so. But there are people who have lived fifty years in Manchester, Leeds, Hull and Hanley without noticing it.
"It is your attitude to believe through thick and thin in one man's judgment your own. I follow the same opinion, but critically and with open eyes. Which is the more irrational? I leave it to yourself." "Oh, my dear fellow!" cried Casimir, "stick to your Turks, stick to your stable-boy, go to the devil in general in your own way and be done with it. But don't ratiocinate with me I cannot bear it.
'It is your attitude to believe through thick and thin in one man's judgment your own. I follow the same opinion, but critically and with open eyes. Which is the more irrational? I leave it to yourself. 'O, my dear fellow! cried Casimir, 'stick to your Turks, stick to your stable-boy, go to the devil in general in your own way and be done with it. But don't ratiocinate with me I cannot bear it.
Savages who go naked, with their noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted it.
You men theorize, ratiocinate, declaim, dogmatize about abstract propositions, and finally get your feet tangled and stumble over facts right under your noses, that women would never fail to pick up and put aside. The soul of Thales possesses you all, whereas we who sit at the cradle, and guide the little tottering feet, study the ground and sweep away the stumbling-blocks.
Imagine, then, that the Whiggery of Bow Street were to rise up against the proposition that their science was to be deduced from 'certain propensities of human nature, and thereon were to ratiocinate as follows: "'How then are we to arrive at just conclusions on a subject so important to the happiness of mankind?
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