The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, And can
logically predicate his finish by his start: But the English--ah, the English!--they are quite a race apart.
It is not
logically necessary to the existence of a memory-belief that the event remembered should have occurred, or even that the past should have existed at all.
The effect ought
logically to have been ruinous for the plagiarist, but it was really nothing of the kind.
Hence they concluded,
logically enough, that an acceleration of motion ought to be accompanied by a corresponding diminution in the distance separating the two bodies; and that, supposing the double effect to be continued to infinity, the moon would end by one day falling into the earth.
whereas the truth-finder, having raked out that jakes, his own mind, and being there capable of tracing no ray of divinity, nor anything virtuous or good, or lovely, or loving, very fairly, honestly, and
logically concludes that no such things exist in the whole creation.
Though,
logically, my pilgrimage had ended with the unexpected discovery of Sylvia Joy, yet there were two famous feminine types of which, seeing that I was in Paris, I thought I might as well make brief studies, before I returned to London and finally resumed the bachelorhood from which I had started.
But in little domestic difficulties, where the penalty of consumption, or death, is out of the question, this theory of Configuration sometimes comes in awkwardly; and I must confess that occasionally when one of my own Hexagonal Grandsons pleads as an excuse for his disobedience that a sudden change of the temperature has been too much for his Perimeter, and that I ought to lay the blame not on him but on his Configuration, which can only be strengthened by abundance of the choicest sweetmeats, I neither see my way
logically to reject, nor practically to accept, his conclusions.
Logically it does seem to follow from his arguments.
However, as she very
logically remarked, there must have been SOME young person in that way of business who had made a fortune without having anything to begin with, and that being taken for granted, why should not Kate do the same?
It was Noirtier the lemonade was intended for -- it is Noirtier,
logically speaking, who drank it.
Now, would you occasionally, when you see an opportunity, slip in a word of advice to her on the subject; men have so much more influence than women have--they argue so much more
logically than we do; and you, monsieur, in particular, have so paramount a power of making yourself obeyed; a word of advice from you could not but do her good; even if she were sullen and headstrong(which I hope she is not), she would scarcely refuse to listen to you; for my own part, I can truly say that I never attend one of your lessons without deriving benefit from witnessing your management of the pupils.
I have made use of all I know or can surmise
logically regarding this strange race.