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I met. Satan on Tuesday. All I MEET adages to the contrary, he HATAN. Was voy black.

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crates, contained in the major premiss words, which delude thinkers. ments about slavery, and though they not fully believing no alone. The conclusion is not a mere The

to be the repetition of part of the major pre-name

"space" ін the kopt then history ways they allowed notorious person now addressing you. for a thought of

them more liberty than the Church But there you are. We've all got to miss, it is a real addition to my know-thing, ond it really

means did. St. Angustine wrote that slavery endure the fares that belong to This, not a libel, is unfair to lodge." The "addition" of know nothing. Infinite spare meas infinite was the fulfilment of a divine carso. Smith to the extent of its suggestio ledge he sought was the name of the nothing which is a meaningless way G. C. Coulton, Social Life in falsi, which will be as sweeping at the continent in which the Selangos earth of saying very extensive nothing, Britain," eays

is, except the imaginations of its readers. Do not quakes ocurred, and the coupling by which is absurd, nothing having no Great, in a letter ofton quoted by going to give away their secrets bless "St. Gregory the ladies. And if you think I'm forget that the purpose of logic is to which he found it was really unneces extension. Seven yards of nothing" apologists, wrote w words of lofty, you're jorly well mistaken. Why, reverse this process---that is, for logicalur if the geography book had heen would make you laugh, │ut you keep generosity men to take all assertione in practical more truthful and explicit, and bad hfo, and to test them by reducing sand right off that Selangor was in Time is to-space what energy is to ex

a straight face for infinite spare. whom he was setting free, but we I hear that some of you who real te them to the A. B. C. formula. For As, instead of in something he knew tension. It is not the naine of a papal cstates were tilled by thousands

must remember also that Grgory's are not even married yet. instance, it is written that Brown alew to be a part of Asio. a defenceless creature, the circumstwas analogous to the couplings in

This coupling thing. It is a name of a thought of of others whom he never attempted ta ances being given. The logician will the Socrates example. Sucrates being evente between events.

no thing between things, of no-liberate; and in a later jetter we find

After the him actually exerting himself to re classify those creamstances and dubin All Men, and all men in Mortality, last event has happened and there is cover a slave of his own brother who then A. B. C. sad by repeating our Socrates was also in mortality --which none to come, time is not. first formula find it demonstrated that is Dr. Mercier's

Cou had escaped." In the latter half of the | fac", ae good a work as I've paited "true syllogism the assertion about Brown is true.

sequently eternity is a name for a XIV centary John Trevisa, a Follow of for a long tin.e. There was plenty of repeated Identically Inverting the thought which, analysed, means in Exeter college, Oxford, gives a picture show in this Mess, and the Strike had In A. B. C. it will look all right, and order of the same premisses cannot finito notness, which is the same as of English Church slavery (as regards nothing to do with my visit there in be unanswerable. But in words it have removed the petitio principi. an accountable number of yards of female surfa) very like that drawn by us I came away on the tram my head. will go like this,

If All men are mortel begs the nothing. Time

Eb Feel Balzac for France. As late as 1606 was full of notions about dogs an question, then "Malacca is in Asia'

ing sleepy? Well, I don't blame you, there was slavery in Scotland, and strikes and poverty. Why do poor must do so too, if both can be ex-

Thats just about where I dropped there is no evidence in much women who keep H rat secretly Brown is a butcher.

pressed thus

off mysell last night.

documentation of the period to show hate the dog their man keps? Therefore Brown slays defenceless

A is included in B.

Local business man the Scottish clergy offered any protest. At can moment I 108 tracing creatures. Here it is sy for com

B is included in ('.

approached ane (See J. M. Robertson's "Perversion of it back to Adam who kept the first monsense to notice that all d fencelees Therefore A is included in C.

smiling and asked Scothund.") As for negro slavery. Id. Bee would want one too, and creature are not lambs, and that Coinmonsense tells us that a geo-

MISUNDERSTOOD Qw if I had noticed suppeard that all must know that this would not meet his idea of matu Brown, for instance, although a bul-graphy book which describes Selangor.

how a certain news- Christianity supported and taining his overlordship. Perhaps ha cher, does tot slay habies. But (this as included in Malacca does not paper had said at the beginning of the defended it. By strane irony offered her the cat as a compromise. is the point) in the formula it is easier amount to proof; and commonsense strike that the Government shou the first slaving vessel on the Now every manly man instinctively to overlook factors, and it is fatally tells us that the classic syllogism not interfere, and then, lately. bad West Coast (1564) Was named craves a dog and a weapon; and a cal easier to imagine that you have proves nothing either. Even if all men said that the Government should the Jesus, and sailed off to kidnap is the emblematical bird of home and advanced a step in learning where you up to Socrates have been mortal, this have intervened FOODET. Seemed free negroes with full ecclesiastical domesticity. But then I went deeper. have made no real advance at all. is no proof that Socrates will die. to think P'd jump at the blessings! All the Cristian govern- | Womau ia the economist, first, Things that are ejual to the same There is no possible proof of that but chance to NO TA oil them. He mente recognized negro slavery, and last, and always. A dog eats 2 thing are equal to each other." This his death. That is to say, if you can doesn't understand.

If they had humanitarians who protested were lot, and does very little to deserve it. Ltd. is said to be a purely rational axiom, follow me, I enpuider that since it is given foolish reasons for their first told that these negroes were descend whereas a cat actually saves foud nothing empiric about it. It can be about the mortality of Socrates that oarlusion, or foolish reasons for their ants of Hum- legend revived re-from the depredations of vermin. It stated this way:

we profess ignorance, white we profees later one, I would likely have said so.cently, you will remember, by my was then I daw with a flash what my knowledge of all men," we have no It is hot arguments that I don't like. Imarned friend Mr. Tse Tean Tai. mind was busy with, trying to lead right to include Sonates in all moon. Inconsistency never shocks me. West rimarck's "Origin and D. velop- me back to a strike of long ago, in the If we know all men we know Soc, and regard it as a symptom of an active ment of the Moral Idea" shows that dear Home land, en to speak. needn't ask conundrums about him. intelligence. A wise man often does clergymen and missionaries were! If we don't, the premiss is a guess, change his mind. Those who don't lave owners, and that churches were Until we prove his mortality we do have no mind to change. The pro- supported from slave property. So not prove his manhood, and therefore positions that the Government should far as abolition is concerned, it was we beg the question when we say pot intervene and that it should have France that not the example and that with" the strikers, he told us butik

All we know of intervened sooner might both be quite same revolutionary France, let me

man si stand by his mates." Socrates is that in all respecte anv sound. Relations are liable to change emphasise, that was spoke of by

was certainly not a lazy man, and he But what have we learned one he looks ike a man. Until the may more or less justly opine on good Christian citizens as they were

WAB no sponger. As the strike Empirically, if we desired to learn the correspondence ju that one respect is Monday that Smith should not attend lately talking of Russia. relation-hip of sugar and cheese, we established, we must not assert that he Tuesday's jamboree, thinking that his was one name for the French Revolugged an, they grew worse off. and were practically living on my small would not buy butter at all. We is a man, but that he is anthropoid. mother has just died, but if I learn on tionists who abolished slavery in 1781. contribution, letting the rent get in would rave time and energy by Commonsense gives us another and a Wednesday that she is still alive and In the same year our own House of

areas. His skinny little wife was satisfactory Comparing the two things at once. more

with Christian of well. I diay dub hin a killjoy for Lords (crammed joint

fiercely proud, and perhaps I was We have, or should have, learned view. I am trying to show reinsing to join in a similar skite for thin, that the ACBC formula that logic is not commonsense, Thursday.

abolition Bill. Wilberforce himself

way, she rebuffed my first attempt to "What would some future enrich the larder. There were two said contains concealed dangers, since and certainly not superior to it as a

l'eople do appear alive commonsense knows that road to knowing. Yet, becauer com

historian say in describing two great and well who are re- pomed

does sugar

monsense not

is less comHOB than its

ported dead We badations the one accused of promot-youngsters, of whom I was fond. She onld not forbid them coming into equal a pound of cheese save in the name suggesta, i can see how roue

that case last week. It ing anarchy and confusion, the ore factor of weight. All thinking methode of logic would serve it and wasn't the China Mail's fault, and

ather contending

nor my giving them religion extra things to eat when they morality, and justice, yet obstinately came, but she sternly ordered her meana the perception of differences contribute to its growth and strength we had nothing to retract. We and resemblances, and in class fying and improvement. In effect, I am reported that a

letter had been coutinning a system of cruelty husband the idea according to the preponder suggesting that the only value of received in the Colony saying that

to accept nothing from and injustice?"

me. She would manage. They were ance of either. The weight is the only logic is as a solvent rather than a certain gentleman W&S dead. Well gentlemen! Wilberforce's not beggars yet. Presently I found similarity (ignoring dibility, et solver. It can show when pseudo- That was true. It was the letter question is answered. Two histori

the busband was not smoking. To between a pound of cheese and a commonsense is sol commouscuse at that was false. Any newspaper that ans," the preacher and Adversarius, me, deprivation of tobacco & worse pound cf sugar, whereas there are all, but nonsense. And for that, the took our news item without acknow- have answered it, and answered it then hunger (which I know all about) numerous differences. Therefore Ascornful word "empiricism narues a ledgment, and disguiard the theft by differently. Which do you believe and I tried to help him there. He does not eqant R any more than two still better teacher. Yet the best altering it to a statement that the Slavery in America is the most recut, would smoke in my room, as my matches and two tranitickets equal teacher is not perfect, and may lead mac was murdered, is in a different the one most people know about guest, my tobacco, as any man might.

or our trum around a vicious eircle such as Fabre's position. The news: "A letter say abolitionists were largely free-thinking tabacco as gift or loan.

Christianity fought for it. The but he would take neither moary nor caterpillars travelled. Experience X was murdered was true, and taught turn that the world was flat needs no apology. The statement:

bumanitarians. Mr. Lamon, biogrstelling it right if you think of either and that the sun crossed it More was ordered" was untrue, and pher of Lincoln, shows that though a of them as ungracions or rude. We experience taught them otherwise, needs an explanation difficult to give very religious man, he was not a remained excellent friends. Finally and the eventual lesson of experience in the circumstances, “

Christian. He himself wrote an hit upon the expedient of hiring is that you never can tell. As logic

I was the "victim," if you call it did for the slaves we know. It would lake,

attack upon Christianity. What he him to 10w me up and down the Professus to tell, and telling is im

so, of a similar report years ago at not be fair to call that Cbristian thinking

"trolling for pike, possible, it is hur. So is

that Home. It was extensively rumoured

he few shillings sense. So is experience. So are

would let him hase all men. And so am I. Hienough

usual tobacco with paper said so. Said that it was Faith etc. to make a man break tretota! what?rutoured. I couldn't contradict it, Civilization) cites a letter of his to it intact to the little missing. A tine civar Buckle (History of conscience. But.

handed! -he The name of the second for I had heard the rumour myse the Governor of Virginia which shows man, he was; [simple, but good. I

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SURGEONO, BATURAY. Fxa. 11, 1972,

thought before. The source of error in those who should know better, that

is to ray, in logicians, rationalists, and scientific philosophers generally,

TAKE

have lost

I can niso le alated in this way: A pound of cheese equal- a pound;

of butter.

A pound of sugar equals a pound of butter.

Therefore a pound of sugar quals a pound of cheese.

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four match-tickets

natches. It is also worth while to observe that all that the formula really said was:

A pound is a pound A pound is a ponad Therefore a pound is a pound. When you have learned that much, you will be surprised to and bow much inted won to solve itsel into the same damuable iteration.

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"Infidels "

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REMINISCE

The na of the house in which lodged came out on strike. He did not "hold

bishops) threw out a mach railder tactless. I was young then. Any

for

my room,

that I had cut my throat, and a new although he was defender of the his

mamarch George 111 a Christian, 1 paid

Having professed demonstrate the danger

pony mentioned in the heard it discussed by two men outside of 'let me now illustrate n. notorious

Race Programine just out my window. is "Adversariat." I have, thesis that we also TOO

too easily diddled by of course, absolutely no bias or

All men are mortal Socrates is a man

Therefore Socrates is mortal.

but I adviensportemen to keep their rge on it. It is sure of a Place.

said one.

very

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I am not

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what he felt about alavery. If the hunted them up yeare after, and preacher insists on claiming Lincola found them. The baby, now a comely ae a Christian, he must take George young woman, made tea for me. The III also. I think the mental process boy, however, had grown up to die in by which such un'istorie claimas get the beastly Boer war. The parents made must be something like this:

Slavery is unchristian. Opposition to slavery is a Christian

Those who opposed slavery must

have been Christians. Therefore slavery was abolished by

Christianity..

That's where the poor-lodged And "I wonder who'll get his job" said the other.

I threw up the sash, on hearing I see thut Wedmsday's this

patural and human EXPATS China Mail referred to a peculation, and said that I was

virtue. certain gentleman as so seriously thinking of applying for it "education expert." There existe myself. Queer things faces--in strong no such thing. It is a meaningless emotion. I shall never forget he happiness," or expert in believing." common men, by which I mean they expression, ke "expert

infaces of those two men. They were

Eas the best ideas or education; but the members of which are never quite Every man I meegeems to fancy he belonged to that intellectual status no one really understands the subject sure that they do not believe in ghosts. except myself.

So long as an expression SLAVERY IN

believes something, ENERGY made familiar by a

ho is better off than UISTORY periodical which in no

a man of no belief.

To use

a man

talked of the old times, and the fuded little woman said she had often wondered how they would have managed if I had not been there. I am quite sure she'd have mausged, even without my fifteen bob a week plus the few bob I paid Jim. What has all this to do with... Why, been true that anti-slavery was an through the long strike, pinched as This would be bad if it had ever of course. I'm coming to that. Right exclusively Christian virtue, which is they were, Jim clung to the [poses. not claimed. It is worse when we sion of a big black retriever he know that it is a newly acquired had. And I recall how Mrs. Jim used virtue for them.

to glare at that dog when it was And the black eating. That's all. dog at "John O' Groats" had remin ed me, somehow, subconsciously, of these things.

I am so glad to find that someone agrees with me SCENERY about our local scenery; that it is good enough

OUR

is a bad babit of trusting to labels. worde. I was startled to find in prejudice in its favour, far from it; Argumentative men who do not first. A. Mercier's "Paychology Norma, agree on definitions of terms talk and Morbid" that he holds that a foolishly, with the tor that involves certain classic formula is not a true preterea mikil. But 1 ere more and syllogism at all. more clearly the more I think that defined terms are themselves wido' BLAND-On February 1, 1922, at the wisps; and that the logician who

Newchang, Robert Bland, Chin- fails to obey the seafaring maxim, Discussing the complaint that all ese Maritime Customs Service,ene hand for the owner and one for syllogisme are v.tiated by the aged 43 years, born in Dublin, yourself," is bound to drown in a sea intrusion of the pet'tio principit in the of nonsense. He must keep in touch major premias, he says it was "founded MAHER. On February 4, 1922, at with what is called commonsense. upon the an lysis of an argument Shanghai, Domingos Jose Maher. Sometime ago I debated at length the that one] which is not a syllogism at Aged 62 years.

nonsense of taking of Analysis and all. It is like the complaint about Synthesis as if they were antithetical. the badness of the tea. No: said My reading last week affronted the responsible officer, no, I admit

A man confided to a me with a contrast of Rationalism that it is not good tea; but it is very way resembles the China Mail, To be out in life without a sustaining WHAT I LOOK China Mail man (who and Empiricism. How reason without passable coffee.'"

take off my bat to" any new club belief must be like being out in the LIKE. betrayed Dr. Mercier member who takes an enthusiastic rain without an umbrella or s rain-

an' office secret by pointing me * TRUTH, JUATICS, PUBLIC SERVICE." experience? How experience without submits what he believes to be a

reason? The labels are misleading. better and truer syllogism. He heara and active interest in the organization coat. So far I'm willing to shut up out to him that he thought I would

Logicians nowadays of an earthquake in Selangor. He be bas joined Bome club members, and let the various preachers of useful have looked different. He had im their old desires to know what continent it i are so lazy. They leave everything beliels cry on with their job in agined the author of this abominable BAUSAGES. idolatry for the in. A geography book tells him that to the committee. My bat! I hear poses. But they really must not hebdomadal gossip to be a sort of

syllogism, Bot merely Selangor is in Malaces. (Some of a new member of the Kowloon make, and ali to be published, Father Christmas figure, of Falstaffian to deserve large and pompous adjec because J. 8. Mill showed its interent geography books are like that.) He Golf Club setting a good example in untrue statements that have been proportions, with a rubicund, jovial tives. There are days when I want to Although well aware that frivolity, nor because of the long knows that Malacen is in Asia. Bo this respect. The very first day he refuted over and over again. Laec countenance, and a cigar perpetually make poems about it, roaring rampa- some knowledge of the recognized fact that its essential he reasons this way:

went on the links he saw that they in one of the papers a ported ser- projecting from it. He looked at the goous poems full of alleluias, and rhy principles of Tugio will feature depends on illogicality, but also Selangor is included in Malacca ought to be lower down, and he started mon which said:

"Some religions real Mo, and said it was impossible me to ring like trumpets, and a great save men from the wrong inferencen because later study has discovered Malacen ie included in Asia

right away to shift them. He is a expressly sanction slavery, bali to think of me 1.4 ода who blaze of burning language to show and conclusions to which they are many instances of valid inference that Therefore Selangor is in Asia

sticker too. At the rata he is going. tion is due to Christianity." He would drink bear, or be seen in how little I fool in the midst of this other members tell me he should sayA could not be stated syllogistically. "At once," he says, "by a

contrary. IndiviaBrasio's. The cigar part A is B

syllogiem, I conclude that it is in howlers have bad time to grow out of Clarkson have had, their names I nes where the reat have them entirely transferred before Christians like Wilberforco

and hat bas me beaten;" but I make these pooms because I canrot, O likes A

Asin." Tut-tut. What hos be done

but only feel them. But Mr. John C. of Therefore liker B

to the classic ont to improve it! Do.

identified with anti-slavery agitation, ha difficultion como in. My Griggs of the Canton Christ an College errors in logio and--in men who ought That is not a syllogism, though if not let the change of nacies deludo

on the but so have freethinkers liko Emerson, so graceful figuro, with its might, if he tried, seeing that this is THINGS TO THINK to know better. It is annoying for may superficially resemble one. It is us. If wo translato Focrates and

tram told me J. 8. Mill, Moncure Conway, and Tom Boho y stoop-ny refined, spiritual what he says in prose: OUT WHEN YOU the some reason that sin by a pareou quits sound and true, in logic, just as Selangor etc. into eymbole, we will

that when Paine. For many centurice organized for noblo varriage and "Hongkong is an apocalyptic is a shock to the lay sinner. I am nome things may be true in me find that he has muroly changed the

CANNOT BLEER. sleeplesti in bed Christianity defended slavery, justified aristoore boating, have often caused revelation, its tossing Ponk trailing 'annoyed when I catch myself thematics but not to fact. Whatever order of his promisecs. Thu

extracts it by quoting the Bible, and even me to bu mistaken for an Anglican the glory of supercal vistas down and doing it,

tho frequ nay logic or mathematics threaten ns with

square roots,

Boine men, I heat, profited materially by owning slaves. bishop. Cly the other day, when I along slopes of loveliness to a harbour of this annoyance bas suggest fall, we are reefing for the owner in

conut imaginary sheep. As for me iu Motley's Life of Gladstone" you dropped in get a pound of butter and Islands unexampled." All mon are included mortality. I play about with fallacies;, trying to may read how the same John Gisa cheppandaptor or ride for nothing, ed to me the thought that error in a gale. We must remember to oing. Therefore Socmtos in in mortality. recall those that have fooled really stone who told Sir Robert Pool that Taggart said. "Have a cigar, my bloke that stool upon a peak

It's just as ho. both, common and inevitable in all tight with the one hand for ourself. He says there is no petitio principit dlover thinkers. Words are names of Providence permitted slavery rencived, Lord", If he who has known to in Darien had nothing on us so far as

anys, meu. You will perlips recognize the Let us translate the ABO proposition in his form. The conclusion is, of things and names of thoughts of in 1899 upwards of £70,000 cont ever side the far when Bill Bailey magio casements are concerned, and vorstie age of this thought, and into something commonsense au course, contained in the promisson; things, dover things. zecall tags that prove it like beon / check

Wisen words ponantion for 1000 slaves. The came home, outd make a ipistoks faerie seas forlorn. No, Sir, but it is not, as in the one of. So-are-treated as things, they breed other "pagau Writors had losty sentile that, I can understand this bird (Continued on Page 5).

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