ON THE 2521 THEORY OF LOGIC: AN ESSAY. BY CARVETH READ. LONDON: C. KEGAN PAUL & Co., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE. 1878. PREFACE. THREE or four years ago a Travelling Scholarship was granted me by the Hibbert Trustees. One condition of holding it was that I should write something on some subject connected with my studies; and I was glad to have an opportunity of writing the following Essay. Now that it is on the eve of publication I cannot help reflecting that almost every page is liable to two criticisms, (1) that it abounds with truisms, (2) that it strains after a spurious sort of originality. There is no sort of opposites which it is easier to unite than faults but for the first of these I plead, that I have been dealing with the most general facts, and that it : would be strange if these were not sometimes also the most obvious; and as to the second, T |