AN OUTLINE OF LOGIC.

AN

OUTLINE OF LOGIC,

FOR THE

USE OF TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.

BY THE

REV. FRANCIS GARDEN, M.A.

TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE;

SUB-DEAN OF HER MAJESTY'S CHAPELS ROYAL;
CHAPLAIN TO THE HOUSEHOLD IN ST. JAMES'S PALACE;
AND PROFESSOR OF MENTAL AND MORAL SCIENCE,
QUEEN'S COLLEGE, LONDON.

BODL

AN

PREFACE.

THE following pages aim at supplying what strikes their Author as a want among our books of education. There may, I think, be cases in which the teacher would wish to communicate some knowledge of the general principles of Logic, and yet be at a loss to find the precise kind of book on the subject which will suit his purpose. The brilliant work of Archbishop Whately, full as it is of fascination and suggestion, has done more perhaps than any single book in our time to stimulate the study in England; but I suppose it will be very generally allowed that it is both inadequate and inaccurate to such an extent as greatly to mar its usefulness as a Class Book. Mr. Morell's Handbook, small as it is, will teach at once much more and much better Logic; but it is so mere a