collegiate institutions in the metropolis, but he does not seem
to know the meaning of the terms inductive and deductive reasoning
(p. 14). The one is just as valuable as the other, and just as liable to
error. A thinker may assume his general principles and reason deduc-
tively from them correctly, but if his original assumption was unsound, disabled. The contents of intercepted letters also tell us that the so of course will be his conclusions ; or he may attain to his general prin- rebels confess to each other that Lee's army was so severely ciples by a sound process. If he does not, the error is in his inductive, handled in the battle in question that since then they cannot be not his deductive logic. Mr. Wood seems to think that when the induc- brought to attack with their old vigour. This confession agrees tion is correctly made, that is induction, but when it is incorrectly made, entirely with the course of events since Lee retreated to Spott- then it is deduction. As to making physical science a part of general sylvania Court House. He has watched closely and has fought with education, we much doubt the expediency of it. The progress of some obstinacy behind formidable earthworks, but the old dash and science is really due to the division of labour. Every scientific man fury of onset have disappeared. Even the former quickness at devotes himself exclusively to his own special branch of science. The making the most of an advantage seems to have forsaken the army modern theory of education seems to be the very reverse of this. of Virginia. The recent success upon the Union left, if promptly The more immature the mind, the more its powers are to be frittered and vigorously followed up, might have been made a very serious
away on a dozen different subjects.
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