PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



"Xothiug is so childish or confusinf)^ as for either one of the disputants 

 to attack the other for what he says, as distinguished from what he obviously 

 means. The question is not which of two writers writes the best article ; 

 hut which is stating or trying to state the strongest position ; it is therefore 

 well to abstain, as far as possible, from anything that may suggest a personal 

 strife of wits, and to deal with whatever arguments an opponent may happen 

 to urge, not as if they were arguments which had been used by him, but 

 merely as if they were arguments which it is possible for men to use." — 

 "Keason AiONE," by W. H. Mallock, Fortniyhtly Review, 'Soy. 1890, 

 p. 753. 



