{"product_id":"2940013198852","title":"A Logic of Facts","description":"The Logic of the Schools, however indispensable in its place, fails to\u003cbr\u003emeet half the common want in daily life. The Logic of the Schools begins\u003cbr\u003ewith the _management_ of the premises of an argument; there is, however,\u003cbr\u003ea more practical lesson to be learned in beginning with the _premises_\u003cbr\u003ethemselves. A thousand errors arise through the assumption of premises\u003cbr\u003efor one arising in the misplacement of terms. The Logic of the Schools\u003cbr\u003eis an elaborate attack upon the lesser evil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir James Mackintosh has remarked that 'Popular reason can alone correct\u003cbr\u003epopular sophistry'--and it is in vain that we expect amendment in the\u003cbr\u003ereasoning of the multitude, unless we make reasoning intelligible to\u003cbr\u003ethe multitude. As to my object, could I, like Gridiron-Cobbett, adopt a\u003cbr\u003esymbol of it, I would have engraved Æsop's 'Old Man and his Ass,' who,\u003cbr\u003ein a vain attempt to please everybody, failed (like his disciples--for\u003cbr\u003eeven _he_ has disciples) to please anybody. The folly of that\u003cbr\u003esuperfluously philanthropic old gentleman should teach us _proportion_\u003cbr\u003eof purpose. To be of real service; to _some_ is in the compass of\u003cbr\u003eindividual capacity, and consequently, the true way of serving, if not\u003cbr\u003eof pleasing _all_. The republic of literature, like society, has its\u003cbr\u003earistocratic, its middle, and its lower classes. No one has combined, in\u003cbr\u003eone performance, the refinement applauded in the universities, with the\u003cbr\u003epractical purpose, popular among those who toil to live, and live to\u003cbr\u003etoil. The populace are my choice--of them I am one, and, like a recent\u003cbr\u003epremier, Earl Grey, am disposed 'to stand by my order.' I write for this\u003cbr\u003eclass both from affection and taste. If I can benefit any, I can them.\u003cbr\u003eI know their difficulties, for I have encountered them--their wants, for\u003cbr\u003ethey have been mine. This will account for the liberties taken with the\u003cbr\u003esubjects upon which I treat. There is more than one kind of hunger that\u003cbr\u003ewill break through barriers, and I have taken with an unlicensed hand,\u003cbr\u003ewherever it was to be found, what I wanted for myself, and what I know\u003cbr\u003eto be wanted by those who stand at the anvil and the loom, and who never\u003cbr\u003ehad the benefits of scholastic education, and who never will.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47082377150704,"sku":"2940013198852","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013198852_p0.jpg?v=1763577682","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013198852","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}