maker or creator, whether it be mind, or art, or a special
faculty—it is an abstraction that is; but, whatever
is practical is dependent only on an agent, or his choice,
for the act is identical with what is chosen. Thus, prac-
tical thoughts are confined to the particular faculties and
organs which are required for securing what may have
been chosen.
Note 7, p. 33. Terminated by a syllogism.] The
syllogism[1] is an argument, in which, from given premises,
something different from the terms laid down results,
necessarily, from their admission. Modern definition is
much like this—the syllogism is said to be an argument
of three propositions, having the property, that the con-
clusion necessarily follows from the two premises; so that
if the premises be true, the conclusion must be true; and
a conclusion is the proposition which is inferred from
certain former propositions, termed the premises of the argument.
Note 8, p. 34. The same incongruity.] This is an
objection by Aristotle to the doctrine of metempsychosis,
adopted by the Pythagoreans, and, being placed upon
obvious physical relations, it may be considered as irre-
fragable. Thus, philosophers held numbers to be elements,
and perceived in them and their combinations resem-
blances to, or types of faculties and sentient properties, as
has been observed. Their doctrine[2] was, "that man
consists of an elementary nature, and a rational or divine
