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Logicians have but ill defined / As rational, the human kind; / Reason, they say, belongs to man, / But let them prove it, if they can. /

Wise Aristotle and Smiglesius, / By ratiocinations specious, / Have strove to prove with great precision, / With definition and division, _Homo est ratione praeditum_; /

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