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We must bring such a teaching to the test by running the rule of common sense over it. It is then that we discover its claims to be weak and extravagant. The sonorous prose in which its gospel is gathered together plays a trick upon its readers, if not upon its author also. The path from its facts and promises to its conclusions and perorations is covered with a haze of obscurity and vagueness. It is in this eye-covering haze that the logical trick is performed.

-- Notebooks Category 7: The Intellect > Chapter 4 : Abstract Thought > # 81