The "deduction of representation" whose outline has just been given was the first example (often imitated in the school of Schelling and Hegel) of a constructive psychology, which, from the mission or the concept of the soulin this case from the nature of self-consciousnessdeduces the various psychical functions as a system of actions, each of which is in its place implied by the rest, as it in turn presupposes them.

or how am I sure that my sagest deductions may be safe guides for the opinions of others?

The deduction of two-fifths was a compromise between the wide opinions and demands of the Southern and other States.p.

But the deductions drawn from his philosophy lead to absurdity, and are an insult to the understanding of the world.

" I start with the proposition that the language of passion is almost invariably broken and abrupt, and the deduction that I wish to draw from this proposition, and the passages that I am about to quote is, thatShakspeare on more than one occasion advisedly used monosyllables, and monosyllables only, when he wished to express violent and overwhelming mental emotion, ex. gratiâ: Lear.