CHAPTER IX 



LOGIC 



THE trinity of Logic is Thought, Comprehension and Wisdom, 

 and it is one of the three portions of the trinity of Truth, 

 which is the outcome of these three factors of its trinity, 

 Thought, viz., Imagination or Theory, Comprehension, viz., 

 mathematics or logic, and the Wisdom of Use or Experiments. 

 What we cannot submit to the test of these three cannot be 

 said to be undeniably proved. What we can test by two is a 

 probability, and by only one is a possibility. Logic is the 

 arithmetic of the brain, being only a form of mathematics. 

 This is why the mind of comprehension or logical mind is 

 more reliable than the mind of imagination or theory, or the 

 mind of understanding or science, because it is the mind that 

 is most prone to grasp the truths as if by instinct. 



Now it therefore follows that if we can only bring one of 

 the attributes of Logic to bear upon any subject, we can only 

 assert that we have obtained a possibility ; if we can bring 

 two of these attributes we have reached the boundaries of 

 probability, and if we can bring a subject under the three 

 heads of Theory, Mathematics and Use, we are then able to 

 prove if our theories of Imagination or our knowledge of 

 Understanding are true or false, right or wrong. 



Now, we cannot experiment with creation, because the 

 Universe is beyond our control. The only means of testing 

 its use is by our knowledge of its past evolution and by his- 

 tory. Consequently the value of the science of Evolution is 

 but little realised by the mass of mankind, yet it is one of the 

 most important means by which we are able to ascertain the 

 true manner in which we must learn the truths of God's 

 revelations, and by which we are able to sift correct inspira- 

 tions from the creations of man's over-fertile imagination. 

 Hence it follows that both the theories of religion and the 

 knowledge of science must be put to the test of logic and 



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