In this syllogism from Aristotle, there is the usual compliance with accredited rules, and the same defiance of common sense. Such examples are deemed perfect reasoning and legitimate argument; but is it not a mockery to encourage the belief that we can have reason and argument, without the truth? Only this shallow consolation remains to us. If the logician of the schoole does not enlighten the understanding, he is at least reputed not to offend the taste, and he wins the equivocal praise of Butler:-- 'He'll run in debt by disputation, And pay with ratiocination; All this by syllogism, true In mood and figure, he will do.' Syllogisms are to truth what rhyme is to poetry. 'It is a well known fact that verse, faultless in form, may be utterly destitute of poetic fire or feeling.'** * Bruce. ** A. J. D. D'Orsey, Eng. Gram., part 2, article Prosody. According to the Logic of the Schools, 'the question respecting the validity of an argument is not whether the conclusion be _true_, but whether it _follows_ from the premises adduced.' It was the bitter experience of Bordon of the delusiveness of such partial logic that induced him to exclaim, '_one_ fact is worth fifty _arguments_.' With such authorities, 'a valid argument is that which it so stated that its conclusiveness is evident from the mere _form_ of the expression.' But since it is admitted that if the data reasoned upon be incorrect, no logical skill can secure a correct result; it is evident that however _faultless the form_, the inquirer after truth is in no way nearer his object, unless he be instructed how to lay a foundation of _faultless facts_. He then, who is in love with truth rather than logomachy, will admit, in spite of the most ingenious analogies, that there is some room for a logic of facts, as well as a logic of words. CHAPTER II. LOCKE-LOGIC.