As Being in the Domain of Logic. 
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which is sin. There is another law for the sensibilities, the 
law of beauty, to be out of conformity with which is ugliness. 
There is another law of the intellect, the law of truth, to break 
which is intellectual confusion and the wandering as of the night. 
This is the imperial legislation of the Absolute Reason in the 
universe, the ancient and unwritten code, abiding in which is 
virtue in the will, beautifulness in the sensibilities, truthfulness 
in science. Under this aboriginal and venerable government 
over thought we as men of science do our responsible work for 
our own yearning and that of mankind. It becomes us to be 
deeply reverent, as have always been the seers of history. 
Logic is the science of this fealty of thought to reason. I think 
of it as a religious science. The teacher of it, the true teacher 
of it, is one of the prophets, standing in the name of God. 
The student, constructing his science under the guidance of its 
teaching, will, if he intelligently apprehend its meaning, go to 
his service with a deep sense of the sacredness of his calling, 
with tremulous joy that he is permitted to minister with his 
hand in the hand of so blessed a leader. Logic affirms the su¬ 
premacy of absolute reason , and true science accepts obediently 
its leadership as of a divine voice. Under the law of that sacred 
science of logic, prophet of a higher law, science goes in and 
out and ministers in sacred things to man. 
Beloit , Wis. 
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