Excerpt from Logic and Argument

This work has been written to supply a double want, namely, the combination of a purely elementary logic with the art of argumentative discourse. Nor has this last feature of the subject been added out of deference to a revival of an intellectual interest in collegiate debate, but it has been suggested both by the practical value of logic as mental discipline and its close connection with the proper and orderly discussion of all subjects in which educated men are expected to engage. Logic as a practical art may be made quite free from discussion of the theory of knowledge, and thus free from philosophic problems, may be made most serviceable in the field of clear and systematic thinking wherever a man is called upon to form and express his opinions. The author has long felt that formal and applied logic of the elementary kind can be taught as well in the earlier as. in the later part of a collegiate course, so that the student can receive the benefit of it throughout his whole academic career. It is especially a subject which ought to follow closely upon mathematics.

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