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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1857. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Handbook of logic John Daniel Morell HANDBOOK OF LOGIC. ADAPTED SPECIALLY FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS. J. D. MORELL, A.M. ONE OF HER MAJESTY S INSPECTORS OF SCHOOLS. SECOND EDITION. LONDON: ONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS. 1857. LONDOW: Printed by Spottirwoohi & Co. New-street Square. PREFACE, There can be no doubt, I think, that the whole system of English Education has hitherto been greatly wanting in the sound development of the powers of abstract thinking. The proper road, nevertheless, to the cultivation of these powers appears to me to be very simple. The natural introduction into the whole region of the abstract, is undoubtedly an intelligent study of grammar: for grammar is the science of language, and language shows the natural mode in which we generalise our sensations and ideas. After the principles of grammar have been well understood, the laws of thought, which are spontaneously involved in language, should be studied more scientifically: and to do this we want a simple introduction to Logic. After Logic, the next step should be an elementary treatise on the human mind, viewed in relation both to the teacher and the taught. This, then, is the plan of an elementary discipline which has been for some time before my mind, and which I have now partly realised. The "Essentials of English Grammar" was intended to be a simple introduction to the study of grammar generally; and, consequently, is adapted rather to explain principles, than to enter into all the minutiae of the English Language. Next, " The Analysis of Sentences" was intended to go somewhat further than English Grammar ordinarily has done, in this country, into the general structure of language, as an organ of thought. Thi...