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no doubt I ought to hold one ; and though I know full well the 

 weakness of logicians in logical argument, 1 scarcely think that 

 nowadays they would care to reinforce it by the argumcntum 

 ad baculum ; and if they did wish, I am sure they would not 

 obtain the sanction of the King. If they should burn my book 

 I should rejoice, for under modern conditions the}' would have 

 first to purchase the whole stock from the publisher, and it is 

 only in such circumstances that it will ever go to a second 

 edition; and lastly, though some infuriated logician may attempt 

 my life, I am confident that it will not be on any religious 

 ground ; for when, in a moment of despondency at the boy- 

 cotting of my New Logic, 1 proposed to an experienced Oxford 

 Don to emulate the example of Martin Luther, and nail the book 

 to the door of St. Mary's Church, he assured me that I could 

 not choose any place in which the logicians of Oxford would 

 be less likely to see it. I cannot help thinking that in this he 

 was wrong. It seems to me that Science Progress is the 

 very last place in the world to be visited by the professors of 

 The Unprogressive Science. 



