text:  "To prove then this point demonstratively (namely that it is not by a process of reasoning that new truths are brought to light ) becomes on these data perfectly easy; for since all reasoning (in the sense above defined) may be resolved into syllogisms; and since even the objectors to logic make it a subject of complaint that in a syllogism the premises do virtually assert the conclusion it follows at once that no new truth (as above defined) can be elicited by any process of reasoning