They felt that nothing was safe before his brilliant dialectic.

Epictetus did not go into the dreary dialectics of the schools, but, like Socrates, confined himself to practical life,to the practice of virtue as the greatest good,and valued the joys of true intellectual independence.

Nor was it by dry dialectics that he refuted these heresies, although the most logical and acute of men, but by his profound insight into the cardinal principles of Christianity, which he discoursed upon with the most extraordinary affluence of thought and language, disdaining all sophistries and speculations.

Concepts were not in his eyes the static self-contained things that previous logicians had supposed, but were germinative, and passed beyond themselves into each other by what he called their immanent dialectic.

Here his splendid personality, his confidence, and his brilliant powers of reasoning and statement, drew to him a large number of admiring pupils, so that he was soon induced to move his school to Corbeil, near Paris, where his impetuous dialectic found a wider field.

" Surely we all know men of this kind, and the consternationcomparable only to that of M. Jourdain under the impromptu carte-and-tierce of his servant-maidwhich their sturdy if informal dialectic will often spread among many kinds of "learned societies."

In this connection I smile somewhat at Dr. Leitner's profound German dialectic in the discussion on the paper read by McNair over the preliminary preparation in language and terms required by an explorer to do his work effectively.

I am not about to assail you with sequiturs and non sequiturs dialectics and all the mysteries of Denk-Lehre, but simply to remind you there is such a thing as the bottom of a subject.

He was a religious and intellectual missionary, preparing the way for the Platos and Aristotles of the succeeding age by his severe dialectics.

" Surely we all know men of this kind, and the consternationcomparable only to that of M. Jourdain under the impromptu carte-and-tierce of his servant-maidwhich their sturdy if informal dialectic will often spread among many kinds of "learned societies."

Even when they have found no use for his particular triadic dialectic, they have drawn confidence and courage from his authoritative and conquering tone.

Bishop Wilberforce was killed by a fall from his horse, not by the triumphant dialectic of Professor Huxley.