Consciousness, truths that we know
by, 6.

Constantine the Great removed the

seat of empire, 319.

Contrast: a principle of reasoning, 158;
examples of, 160; used in theology,
161.

Controversy not inconsistent with re-
ligion, 13; may sometimes be better
declined, 249, 300.

Conversation, compared with reading,
153; rules of, 255; cause of man's
superiority over animals, 257; with-
out reasoning, 260.

Conversational reasoning, 249, 254;
examples of, 258.

Convocation, the Archbishop of Canter-
bury's Speech on, 94.
Country bank notes, 339.

Court of Chancery, abuses in, 235.
Courtesy in controversy, 300.
Courts of Law, evidence in, 99.
Crime: causes of its increase, 92.
Criticisms on Logic for the Million, 33,
81, 160, 255.

Croly's, Dr., Sermons quoted, 112; on
Marriage with the Sister of a deceased
Wife quoted, 116; National Know-
ledge, National Power, quoted, 349.
Cromwell, Oliver: his government, 318.
Croxall's Esop's Fables quoted, 176.
Cruelty to animals, Lord Erskine's
speech upon, 124.

Crystal Palace: its size, 348.
Cumming's, Dr., Sermon on God in
Science quoted, 110; Lecture on
Music quoted, 295.

Curran; his address to a jury, 241.

D.

Daily avocations, our reasonings should
be associated with, 360.

David what he did when hungry,
127, 134.

Debating societies, 363; advantages
of, 364.

Debtors, the laws of Moses respecting,
320.

Debts, public: Mr. Burke's dilemma
against, 280.

Deduction: what is it? 129.

Definition: what is it? 25; reasoning
from, 62; errors in reasoning from,
209.

Degrees of assent, 198.

Degrees of rank in heaven, Dr. Watts
on, 247.

Deity, proofs of his existence, 110, 224;
proofs of his goodness, 112, 113.
Descriptive reasoning, 224, 227; the
principles of reasoning connected
with, 230; how rendered more vivid,
231; in the form of personification,
232; descriptions of Geo. Robins's,
232; practical application of, 234:
erroneous reasoning from, 236.

De Vericour's Historical Analysis of
Christian Civilization quoted, 321.
Dickens's Household Words quoted,341.
Diet, the logic of, 308.

Dilemma: what is it? 276; examples
of, 279; Bastiat's in favour of free-
trade, 279; Burke's against public
debts, 280; Torrens's against works
conducted by the Government, 280;
Say's against Sumptuary Laws, 280;
Seymour's against Priestly Abso-
lution, 280; Lord Beaumont's against
Bishops appointed by Rome, 281;
dilemma against Synods, 281; in
favour of the Pursuit of Knowledge,
281.

Discontent, reasons against, 244.
Discoveries that may arise from the
Industrial Exhibition, 291; in science,
321.

Disputation, scholastic, 266, 268.
Disputes not incompatible with re-
ligion, 13; are sometimes better
avoided, 300.

D'Israeli's Curiosities of Literature
quoted, 40, 143, 178, 361, 140.
Dissenters, Dr. Alexander on, 89.
Distinctions between moral good and
evil, 351.

Division, rules of, 45; the application
of, 48.

Doctrines of the Catholic Church:
transubstantiation, 38; confession
and absolution, 280; celibacy of the
clergy, 245; baptismal regeneration,
242; papal hierarchy, 246.
Doctrines of the Society of Friends,
on war and oaths, 355; on salutations
and amusements, 356.

Domestic concerns, great men un-
happy in, 322.

Domestic consultation, the logic of, 310.
Doubting the art of, taught by meta-

physical logic, preface vii. 75.
Dress, the logic of, 304.

Drunkenness: its effects, 0, 354.
Duke of Wellington: how proved to be
mortal according to Mr. Mill, 272.

E.

Earl of Liverpool: letter from the
author to, 335.

Early Marriages: evils of, 92.
Ecclesiastical law: its origin, 188.
Edinburgh Review quoted, 93.
Education: public and private com-
pared, 309.

Effects: modes of reasoning respect-
ing, 85.

Effects of national wealth, 330.
Egypt, Ancient: its characteristics,
327.

Electors numbers and classification
of, 337.

Elijah: his residence at Zarephath,105;
another reference to, 133.
Employments: their effects on the
mind, 125.

Encyclopædia Britannica quoted, 144.
England: superiority of, 244.

English Gentleman, The, quoted, 311.
Euthymeme: what is it? 250; examples
of, 252.

Enumeration: arguments from, 59; of
the duties of public companies, 352.
Epichirema: a compound syllogism,
275, 277.

Erroneous reasonings of political eco-
nomists, 68, 121.

Errors in reasoning, 201; from not un-
derstanding the question, 204; from
the relation of subject and attribute,
205; from a whole and its parts, 207;
from genus and species, 208; from
cause and effect, 210; from examples,
211; from analogy, comparison and
contrast, 213; from parables, fables,
and proverbs, 214; from written do-
cuments, 214; miscellaneous errors,
216.

Erskine, Lord: his speech quoted on
cruelty to animals, 124.

Evidence of our sense: can we believe
it? 75.

Examples, good, to be imitated, 133.
Examples: mode of reasoning from,
127; exemplified from Scripture, 132;
differ from fables, 172; fallacies con-
nected with, 211.

Exeter, Bishop of: his trial with the
Rev. Mr. Gorham, 189.
Exhibition, the Great: Banking Prize

Essays in connexion with, 54; Lord
Overstone's speech on,61; Prize Essay,
by the Rev. Mr. Whish, 81, 154, 357;
Prize Essay, by a working millwright,
on, 90; speech of the Earl of Carlisle
on, 290; article from the Times on,
292; statistics of, 348; Moral effects
of, 357,.

Experience the test of truth, 300.
Extensive empires, advantages of, 322.
Eye: a description of, 224.

Final cause and effect: the relation of,
109; application of, to natural theo-
logy 110; to the divine attributes,
112; to the human mind, 113; to the
animal creation, 114; to moral ac-
tions; 115; the design of legislators,
116; the interpretation of the law,
117; in judicial cases, 118; in cir-
cumstantial evidence, 119; in politi-
cal economy, 121; to the feelings of
the mind, 122; effects of training
on the mind, 124; the ordinary af-
fairs of life, 125; fallacies connected
with, 211.

Fletcher's Lectures on the Roman
Catholic Religion quoted, 242, 246.
Follett, Sir William: his clear reason-
ings, 360.

Forced interpretation, 214.
Forgery of the Old Testament: dis-
proved by a trilemma, 283.
Forms of reasoning, 221, 274.
France: law of partnership in, 88.
Francis, St.: his Equivocation, 220.
Franklyn, Dr.: his mode of reasoning,
44; anecdote of, 215; his Poor
Richard's Almanack quoted, 182.
Free-Trade and its so-called Sophisms
quoted, 84.

Friendship outlines of a theme on,
289.

Fugitive slave-bill in America: an à
fortiori argument respecting, 157;
description of a capture, 231.
Fundholders: numbers and classifica-
tion of, 343.

G.

Garden supplies examples for classifi-
cation, 66.

General principles: their application
to particular cases, 57, 137; misap-
plication of, 208; application of in
political economy, 331; in moral
philosophy, 355.

General theories should not be raised
on a small number of particulars,
130, 211.

Gentleman: what forms one, 311.
Genus and species: the relation of,
53; rules for dividing, 55; mode of
reasoning from, 56, 130; errors in
reasoning from, 63, 208; in statis-
tics, 343; in morals, 353.
Giddings, J. R. of America: his speech
on slavery quoted, 157.

Gilbart J. W.: his prize for a Banking
Essay in connexion with the Great
Exhibition, 54.

his Practical Treatise on
Banking quoted, 57, 107, 145, 299,
339, 352.

his Lectures on Ancient Com-
merce quoted, 72, 98, 125, 135, 243,
281, 327, 354, 355.

Gilbart J. W.: his Lecture on the Philo-
sophy of Language quoted, 150, 258.
Gilbart, Rev. Thomas: his Lectures

on the Bible quoted, 60.

Gilfillan's Bards of the Bible quoted,

283.

Goodwill of other people: how to ob-
tain, 126.

Gorham, Rev. Mr.: his trial with the
Bishop of Exeter, 189.
Grammar compared with Logic, 4; sub-
stantives and adjectives compared
with subject and attribute, 31.
Guilt; indications of, 100.
Guy Fawkes's Indictment quoted, 156.

H.

Habit, the effect of, 135.

Habits, good: the source of happiness,
277; man has the power of forming
them, 278; of reasoning, how formed,
357.

Hall's Book of the Feet quoted, 305.
Hallam's Literature of Europe quoted,
270.

Hamilton, Dr.: his sermon on Early
Closing quoted, 97, 231.

-Sir William: his new ana-

lytic, 271.
Health necessary to reasoning well,
357; effects of certain studies upon,
358.

Health of mind; how promoted, 359.
Henry, Rev. Matthew: quoted, 139.
Hill, Rev. Rowland: Sherman's Anec-
dotes of, 38, 82; Southey's description
of, 226.

Hill's Logic quoted, 131, 252.
Historians, philosophical, 139.
Historical evidence, 229.

History: mode of writing, 216, 316;
logic applied to, 313; political eco-
nomy founded on, 325; the philosophy
of, 315.
Holt, Judge: Lord Campbell's charac-
ter of, in his Lives of the Lord Chan-
cellors, 154.

Homœopathy: must be proved by ex-
periment, not by reasoning, 79.
Honourable man; a merchant should
be one, 354.

Horæ Paulinæ of Paley, quotations
from, 103.

Human body is an animal, 79.
Husband logical, is useful, 15.
Huyshe, Rev. John: his Logic quoted,
250.

I.

Ignorantia elenchi: what is it? 204.
Illicit process: what is it? 207.
Imagination is restrained by reasoning,
14, 359.

Independence of mind: what it implies,
19.

S

Induction: what is it? 129; explained
by Mr. Hill, 131.

Industrial Exhihition: Lord Overstone
on, 61; Rev. Mr. Whish on, 81, 154,
357; a working man's essay on, 90;
the Earl of Carlisle on, 290,
Industry: the cause of distinction. 123;
the cause of wealth, 328; of a gentle-
man, 134.

Intellect: truths of, 6.

Internal evidences of the Divine in-
spiration of the Scriptures, 194.
Interpretation: rules of, in regard to
legal instruments, 191; of the Holy
Scriptures, 200.

Interrogative reasoning, 237.
Ireland, Lord-Lieutenancy of: effects
of its abolition, 93; population of,
335; circulation of. 340.

J.

Johnson's Lectures to Yonng Men, 126.
Joint responsibility of a Board of Man-
agers implies the personal responsi-
bility of its individual members, 52.
Joint Stock Banks, 88; their attributes,
41; laws respecting them, 185; how
affected by the Law of Evidence Bill,

188.

Joyce's Catechism of Nature quoted, 72.
Judicial Committee of Privy Council:

their decision in the case of Gorham
v. the Bishop of Exeter, 189.
Judicial proceedings: evidence in, 49.

K.

Knight's Half-hours with the Best
Authors quoted, 134, 260.
Knowledge: necessary to reasoning,
24; a dilemma respecting, 281.

L.

Labour; evil of its abolition, 88.
Land of Canaan: its physical attri-
butes, 33, 327.

Landlords: their rights and duties, 92.
Language, clear: necessary to reason-
ing, 27; formed by analogy, 150;
rules for acquiring good, 222; means
of co-operation, 257; origin of, 259.
Laughing Philosopher quoted, 142.
Law of Evidence Bill: how it affects
Joint Stock Banks, 188.
Law Reform, 235.

Laws of the currency, 339.
Learning any new thing: how to do it,

228.

Lectures quoted: on the Holy Bible;
60; on Ancient Commerce, 72, &c.,
on God in Science, 110; on the Phi-
losophy of Languge, 150, 258; on the
Internal Evidences of the Sacred
Scripture, 194; on the National Obli-

gations to the Bible, 244; on Music,
295; on Congregational Chanting,
297; on the Philosophy of History,
313; on Oliver Cromwell, 318; on
systematic morality, 349.
Legal argumentation: the principle of
analogy applied to, 146.
Lessing's Fables quoted, 173.
Literary Characteristics of the Bible
quoted, 179, 199.

Literary Institutions: their effects, 245,
364.

Literary World of New York quoted,
118, 307.

Locke on the Human Understanding
quoted, 268.

Logic: definition of, 3; compared with
grammar, 4.

Loose definitions: reasoning from, 209.
Love of truth necessary to sound reason-
ing, 18.

Lysson's Esop's Fables quoted, 177.

M.

Macaulay's History of England quoted,
139, 159.

McCulloch, Mr. his dispute with
Malthus, 66; his Analogies, 147.

his Political Economy

quoted, 109, 331.

his Statistical Account
of the British Empire quoted, 188.
Macculloch's, Dr., Literary Character-
istics of the Holy Scriptures quoted,
179, 199.

Macnish's Anatomy of Drunkenness
quoted, 354.

Malthus, his dispute with Macculloch,
66; his theory of population, 89, 332.
Man's power over himself to prevent
or control Insanity quoted, 14.
Manner: influence of, 21.
Manufactures a source of national
wealth, 230.

Marcet, Mrs.: Conversations on Political
Economy quoted, 50, 88, 135, 325;
her Willy's Grammar quoted, 240.
Marriage: the logic of, 306.
Marriage with the sister of a deceased
wife, 165.

Martin, Rev. S. Lecture on Money
quoted, 42.

Master, logical: useful, 15.

Mathematical reasoning, 47, 285, 362.
Mayo's Philosophy of Living quoted,

313.

Medicine, its character as a science,
78, 79.

Melvill, Rev. H.: his sermon quoted,
300.

Memory strengthened by the art of
reasoning, 13.

Mental independence should be culti-
vated, 19.

Mental reservation, 219.

Metaphors are not arguments, 164.
Mill's Logic quoted, 31, 75, 180, 208,
212, 213, 272.

Mind: its powers, 5.

Modern civilization: the permanency
of, 293.

Money, metallic: its attributes, 42;
effects of its increase, 30; evils of its
abolition, 89.

Moral cause and effect: the relation
of, 78, 80; examples of, 81; modes of
reasoning from this relation, 82; dif-
ficulty in proving that a specific
cause does produce a specific effect,
83; public measures are usually
judged by their effects, 85; sometimes
effects are put for causes, 85; the
same cause does not always produce
the same effect, 87; the reductio ad
absurdam, or pointing out the absurd
effects, 88; proving too much, 90; ad-
vantages and disadvantages of pro-
posed measures are referred to cause
and effect, 90; effects of early mar-
riages, 92; causes of the increase of
crime, 92; effects of the Lord Lieu-
tenancy of Ireland, 93; probable
effects of a convocation, 94; fallacies
connected with cause and effect, 210.
Moral habits a source of wealth, 328.
Moral philosophy: application of logic
to, 349.

Moral principle connected with sound
reasoning, 365.

Moral reasonings: the principle of ana-
logy applied to, 145.

Moral truths proved to exist, 349.
Morality of actions consists in their
motives, 115.

Morning Chronicle quoted, 234, 345.
Morning Herald quoted, 281.

Mosaic code of law: its spirit, 116;
writings, authenticity of, 317.
Moses allowed interest for money, 39;
the spirit of his laws, 116; respecting
debt, 320.

Motives to actions, 109; form the
morality of actions, 115; inferred
from the actions, 119, 125; fallacy of
assigning wrong motives, 211.
Mottram's prize essay on Institutional
Education quoted, 364.

Multiplication: application of, 48, 336.
Munro's Manual of Logic quoted, 39.
Music: advantages of, 295.

N.

Names have no necessary connexion
with things, 2.

Napoleon Buonaparte, 8, 13, 173, 216.
Narratives, 227.

National debt: Mr. Burke's dilemma
on, 280.

National wealth: its nature, 327; its
cause, 327; its effects, 330.

Natural philosophy, 73; errors in, 74.
Natural theology, 110, 112.
Nature: how we reason respecting, 73;
uniformity of its laws the founda-
tion of induction, 129.
Navigation Laws, 87.

New York Independent quoted, 231.
Newspapers, London: the number of
square feet they measure, 341.
Newton, Sir Isaac: his attributes, 39,
321.

Newton, Rev. John: his defence of
forms of prayer, 150.

Nicholls on the Book of Proverbs
quoted, 181.

Nile its overflowing, 72.
Nonconformist quoted, 235.

0.

Oaths: Curran upon, 241; the opinions
of the Quakers respecting, 355.
Observation and experiment: their
province, 76, 78.

Oliver Cromwell: established the Navi-
gation Act, 88.

Onus probandi: what is it? 248.
Oral traditions: why rejected, 197.
Overstone, Lord: his speech in favour
of the Industrial Exhibition, 61.

P.

Paley's Horæ Paulina quoted, 103.
Moral Philosophy quoted, 143,
146, 162, 352.

Natural Theology quoted, 224.
Parables, reasoning from, 166, 168;
fallacies connected with, 214.
Partnerships en commandité, 88.
Paul, St.: his attributes, 33; his letters
to Timothy, 103; his cloak, 104.
Peel, Sir Robert: his attributes, 39;
his trilemma, 282.
Personal descriptions, 225.
Petitio principii: what is it? 204.
Philosophy of History, 313.
Physical causes and effects: the rela-
tion of, 71; modes of reasoning from,
72;
errors in reasoning from, 74;
physical attributes of a country a
source of its wealth, 327.
Pictorial Bible quoted, 320.
Places: description of, 235.
Political economy, 50; its character as
a science, 78; analogy employed in,
147; application of logic to, 325.
Political economists: their mode of
reasoning, 68, 121.

Political institutions a source of national
wealth, 328.

Politics: its character as a science, 78.
Poetry, immoral, Dr. Watts on, 246.
Polygamy: an à fortiori argument
against, 156.

Prayer Book quoted, 109.

Principles of reasoning: what are they?
30.

Prize essays on the Industrial Exhi-
bition, 54, 81,90, 154, 357; on Literary
Institutions, 364.

Property: the evils that would result
from its abolition, 88.
Proposition: what is it? 26.

Prosyllogism, a compound syllogism,
276, 284.

Protective system: historical defence
of, 84.

Protestant and Catholic states con-
trasted, 159.

Proverbs: their application, 58; Solo-
mon's, 152; reasoning from, 166,
178; Fielding's collection of, 178;
Dr. Macculloch on do., 179; Nicholls
on Solomon's, 181; Dr. Franklin's
application of, 182; fallacies con-
nected with, 214.
Proving too much, 90.

Public bodies: logical advisers useful
to, 16; Responsibility of their man-
agers, 52.

Public companies: laws respecting, 186;
their moral duties, 145, 299, 352.
Public measures: how they are judged,

85.