text:  There is however the more excuse for the confusion of thought which prevails on this subject because eminent logical writers have treated or at least have appeared to treat of induction as a kind of argument distinct from the syllogism; which if it were it certainly might be contrasted with the syllogism: or rather the whole syllogistic theory would fall to the ground since one of the very first principles it establishes is that _all_ reasoning on whatever subject is one and the same process which may be clearly exhibited in the form of syllogisms