Excerpt from The Laws of Thought or Formal Logic: A Brief Comprehensive Treatise on the Laws and Methods of Correct Thinking
It may not be unwise to preface the following pages with a caution regarding their scope and purpose. Such caution may, indeed, be due not only to the writer lest his aim be misunderstood; but also to the reader, who might otherwise seek in this little book for what it does not contain.
This book, then, is not a Psychology. It does not discuss the nature of the soul or of its faculties. It merely enumerates the principal acts of the intellect; and describes them as far as is necessary for the purpose of this book, which is to lay down briefly and clearly the process of right thinking. This requires no encroachment upon the field of psychology.
Questions which should be discussed later on, in the course of philosophical studies, if introduced into an outline of correct thinking, only retard progress: firstly, because they are distracting; but especially because the mind is not prepared for them. Even after long discussions they are not understood by one who is just entering on the study of philosophy.
Many things have been here omitted which would find a fitting place in an exhaustive treatise on Logic. But they are such things as are not necessary to the purpose of this compendious work.
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