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this is
their proposition, `If it is true that all A is B, then it follows that some B is A‟, that is, `If
it is true that all men
are animals, then it follows that some animals are men‟. They express this by saying
that `the universal
affirmative proposition has as its converse a particular affirmative proposition‟. What connection
has this with
the essentials of religion, that it should be denied or rejected? If such a denial is made, the
only effect upon
the logicians is to impair their belief in the intelligence of the man who made the denial and,
what is worse, in
his religion, inasmuch as he considers that it rests on such denials.
Moreover, there is a type of mistake into which students of logic are liable to fall. They draw up
a list of the
conditions to be fulfilled by demonstration, which are known without fail to produce certainty.
When, however,
they come at length to treat „of religious questions, not merely are they unable to satisfy these
conditions,
their proposition, `If it is true that all A is B, then it follows that some B is A‟, that is, `If
it is true that all men
are animals, then it follows that some animals are men‟. They express this by saying
that `the universal
affirmative proposition has as its converse a particular affirmative proposition‟. What connection
has this with
the essentials of religion, that it should be denied or rejected? If such a denial is made, the
only effect upon
the logicians is to impair their belief in the intelligence of the man who made the denial and,
what is worse, in
his religion, inasmuch as he considers that it rests on such denials.
Moreover, there is a type of mistake into which students of logic are liable to fall. They draw up
a list of the
conditions to be fulfilled by demonstration, which are known without fail to produce certainty.
When, however,
they come at length to treat „of religious questions, not merely are they unable to satisfy these
conditions,