Character of the Age for Logic

This is not a logical age. A friend lately gave me some political pamphlets / of the times of Charles I. and the Cromwellate. In them the premisses are / frequently wrong, but the deductions are almost always legitimate; whereas, / in the writings of the present day, the premisses are commonly sound, but / the conclusions false. I think a great deal of commendation is due to the / University of Oxford for preserving the study of logic in the schools. It / is a great mistake to suppose geometry any substitute for it.

Negatively, there may be more of the philosophy of Socrates in the / Memorabilia of Xenophon than in Plato: that is, there is less of what does / not belong to Socrates; but the general spirit of, and impression left by, / Plato, are more Socratic.[1]