C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Sir W. Hamilton
A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another. 1 An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. 2 In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole. 3 Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,—that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject. 4 Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs. 5 Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. 6 Read much, but not many works. 7 There is a distinction, but no opposition, between theory and practice. Each to a certain extent supposes the other. Theory is dependent on practice; practice must have preceded theory. 8
