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To those who have followed us thus far, it will be evident what 

 final judgment we are to pass on the work under review. On the 

 one hand, as a contribution to philosophy, in the strict sense of that 

 term, it does not possess any value. Professor Boole distinctly, 

 though modestly enough, avows the opinion, that, in his " Investi- 

 gation," he has gone deeper than any previous inquirers into the 

 principles of discursive thinking, and that he has thus thrown new 

 light on the constitution of the human mind. We are sorry to be 

 unable to accept this view. But, on the other hand. Professor 

 Boole is entitled to the praise of having devised a Method, according 

 to which, through definite processes, it can be ascertained what con- 

 clusions, regarding any of the concepts entering into a system of 

 premises, admit of being drawn from these premises. This Method 

 depends on a Calculus, original, ingenious, singularly beautiful both 

 in itself and in its relations to the science of Algebra, and capable 

 (in hands like those of its inventor) of striking and important appli- 

 cations. In a word, the merit of the Treatise lies in that part of it 

 which has nothing to do with the Laws of Thought, but which is 

 devoted to showing how inferences, from data however numerous 

 and complicated, and whatever be the matter of the discourse, can 

 be reached through definite mathematical processes. 



THE MOHAWK LANGUAGE, 



BY ORONHYATEKHA. 



When I was requested to prepare a paper concerning the language 

 of my people, to be read before your learned body, I readily assented ; 

 not because I was not fully sensible of the difficulty of the task, or 

 that I was not painfully aware of my awn inability to do a subject of 

 so much importance anything like full justice : but in the hope that 

 1 might be able to contribute something which may prove of some 

 assistance to those whose inquiries may be turned in the same 

 direction. 



It will not be expected, in a short paper liket his, that more can ba 



