text:  When Archbishop Whately for example says that the object of reasoning is 'merely to expand and unfold the assertions wrapt up as it were and implied in those with which we set out and to bring a person to perceive and acknowledge the full force of that which he has admitted ' he does not I think meet the real difficulty requiring to be explained; namely how it happens that a science like geometry _can_ be all 'wrapt up' in a few definitions and axioms