text: " Who has not met--what young lady even though but in her teens has not encountered some such charming triplet as this which looks so like verse at a distance but like some other compositions approximates nothing the more on this account to poetry? Who has not learnt from such examples what is a _major_ what a _middle term_ and what the _minor_ or conclusion? As no one in the present day advises the adoption in our controversies of the syllogistic forms of reasoning it is evident that the value of the syllogism must consist not in its practical use but in the accurate type which it affords of the process of reasoning and in the analysis of that process which a full understanding of it renders necessary