Elementary philosophy

Part I. Being The Science Of Reasoning

THE ART OF CORRECT REASONING ACCORDING TO SCIENCE;

OR,

CRITICALLY TREATED AND APPLIED.

By JAMES M. WILLCOX, Ph. D.

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Dedication

To the American, people, who claim to be the embodiment of human progress in what is great and good, and the depositary of a stupendous " manifest destiny," this work is respectfully inscribed.

God grant your aspirations to be substantially and rightly founded ; and, if so, may He point out unmistakably the whereabouts of the proper foundation ! As an instrument in His hands, the author desires to assume and do his part ; and, in the pursuance of that self-imposed duty, he has, amidst many cares of an active business life (which fact may well be a valid apology for many imperfections), collated the results of a long study of Christian Philosophy, which are herein submitted to you, with the assurance that a departure from, or non-conformity to, the principles of Christian Philosophy, will work disaster and humiliation instead of prosperity and fame.

We have all that could be asked of Nature for the realization of our hopes in time ; ample territory in a double continent ; geographical position between the eastern and western extremes of the Old World ; all