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Excerpt from A New Treatise of the Art of Thinking, or a Compleat System of Reflections, Vol. 1 of 2: Concerning the Conduct and Improvement of the Mind, Illustrated With Variety of Characters and Examples Drawn From Ordinary Occurrences of Life
I T is nece'?ary that Rules fhonld he made very familiar to us, that we may con?antey oh/erve them ao-hene ver we have Occaf on. I t is nece?ary that our Minds fhould' he jo formed upon, and contr on [o intimate and perfect an' Hahn of them, that to follow them, we need not jh much as to he at the T rouhle of thinhing on them. I t is necejary that what we call Artificial Logic fhonld hecome in us Natural Logic. The hare Kno w; ledge of Rules could never produce this E f fec'z: It is hy the 'ufie we mahe of them, that we learn to manage them, and firm our filves to an Hahit of employing them to the he? advantage. Explain to young sdeople the Maxims of Logic as clearly as you pleafe mahe them get them hy Heart and repeat them an hundred and an hundred Times over yet if you go no farther than this, you will teach them no more to thinh 7uhly, than you would to sfpeah E loquent h hy. Explaining only to them the Rules ofh Grammar, and ranging them in their Me.
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