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LOGIC.
Unless you have the logic of the schools,
'Tis said you cannot with precision think;
In reasoning it gives the needed tools
To hammer link by link.
'Tis said you cannot with precision think;
In reasoning it gives the needed tools
To hammer link by link.
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‘Not so,’ says Swedenborg; and, argues he,
‘It were as necessary to advance
Through certain studies in anatomy
Ere you can learn to dance.’
‘It were as necessary to advance
Through certain studies in anatomy
Ere you can learn to dance.’
Methinks that both are right and wrong; that he
Who thinks by logic will be more exact
Within his rules, but often fail to see
The truth beyond the fact.
Who thinks by logic will be more exact
Within his rules, but often fail to see
The truth beyond the fact.
While he that treads with uncondition'd sight,
Though often lost within the night of thought,
Will often reach that all-redeeming light
The other vainly sought.
Though often lost within the night of thought,
Will often reach that all-redeeming light
The other vainly sought.
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