Psychological inquiries : in a series of essays, intended to illustrate the mutual relations of the physical organization and the mental faculties / [Sir. Benjamin Brodie].

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1854
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    not mean to say that these are more important than the capability of forming a right judgment of the tiling before us, and of reasoning accu- rately ? Eubulus. Certainly not. But then it seems to me that in all cases in which we have to arrive at a conclusion by comparing the evi- dence on one side with that on the other (and these include all branches of human knowledge except pure mathematics), nothing contributes so much to accurate reasoning as the habits of which we are speaking. The principal defect in those who reason inaccurately is that so happily illustrated by the fable of the two knights disputing about the gold and sUver shield. They do not see, or they do not take into the account, the whole of the facts on which their conclusion is to be founded. Who is so little hable to fall into tliis error as the individual who keeps the subject to which his inquiries are directed constantly before him, untU all its relations gradually are presented to his view ? Observe, that I am speaking of