They have a sort of nervous dread of Attributes beginning with a negative particle. For example, such Propositions as "All not-x are y," "No x are not-y," are quite outside their system. And thus, having (from sheer nervousness) excluded a quantity of very useful forms, they have made rules which, though quite applicable to the few forms which they allow of, are no use at all when you consider all possible forms. Let us not quarrel with them, dear Reader! There is room enough in the world for both of us. Let us quietly take our broader system: and, if they choose to shut their eyes to all these useful forms, and to say "They are not Syllogisms at all!" we can but stand aside, and let them Rush upon their Fate! There is scarcely anything of yours, upon which it is so dangerous to Rush, as your Fate. You may Rush upon your Potato-beds, or your Strawberry-beds, without doing much harm: you may even Rush upon your Balcony (unless it is a new house, built by contract, and with no clerk of the works) and may survive the foolhardy enterprise: but if you once Rush upon your FATE--why, you must take the consequences! CHAPTER II. CROSS QUESTIONS. "The Man in the Wilderness asked of me 'How many strawberries grow in the sea?'" __________ 1. Elementary. 1. What is an 'Attribute'? Give examples. 2. When is it good sense to put "is" or "are" between two names? Give examples. 3. When is it NOT good sense? Give examples. 4. When it is NOT good sense, what is the simplest agreement to make, in order to make good sense? 5. Explain 'Proposition', 'Term', 'Subject', and 'Predicate'. Give examples. 6. What are 'Particular' and 'Universal' Propositions? Give examples. 7. Give a rule for knowing, when we look at the smaller Diagram, what Attributes belong to the things in each compartment. 8. What does "some" mean in Logic? [See pp. 55, 6] 9. In what sense do we use the word 'Universe' in this Game? 10. What is a 'Double' Proposition? Give examples. 11. When is a class of Things said to be 'exhaustively' divided? Give examples. 12. Explain the phrase "sitting on the fence." 13. What two partial Propositions make up, when taken together, "all x are y"? 14. What are 'Individual' Propositions? Give examples. 15. What kinds of Propositions imply, in this Game, the EXISTENCE of their Subjects? 16. When a Proposition contains more than two Attributes, these Attributes may in some cases be re-arranged, and shifted from one Term to the other. In what cases may this be done? Give examples. __________ Break up each of the following into two partial Propositions: 17. All tigers are fierce. 18. All hard-boiled eggs are unwholesome. 19. I am happy. 20. John is not at home. __________ [See pp. 56, 7] 21. Give a rule for knowing, when we look at the larger Diagram, what Attributes belong to the Things contained in each compartment.