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If he sets forth to prove anything at all, he must prove that thing and not some totally different thing. He must beware of the red-herring across the trail. For a clear example of defective logic, I turn to a French play Sardou's Spiritisme.
A certain sharp-witted savant surnamed them "La Societe des Malcontents du Spiritisme." The founders of this club were people who, believing in the phenomena of spiritualism as much as in the possibility of every other phenomenon in Nature, still denied the theory of the "spirits."
Well, I can give you a note to Baron Kriegmuth. C'est un très-brave homme. But you know him yourself. He was your father's comrade. Il donne dans le spiritisme. But that is nothing. He is a kind man. What do you want there?" "It is necessary to obtain permission for a mother to visit her son who is incarcerated there.
"It does not interest me, ma tante." "But I tell you that it is interesting, and you must come home. Now you may go. What else do you want of me? Videz votre sac." "The next is in the fortress." "In the fortress? I can give you a note for that to the Baron Kriegsmuth. Cest un tres brave homme. Oh, but you know him; he was a comrade of your father's. Il donne dans le spiritisme.
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