RUDIMENTS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING AND DEBATE: OR ints on the Application of Logic. BY GEORGE JACOB HOLYOAKE, 'COMMON SENSE IS THE GENIUS OF HUMANITY.'-Guizot. LONDON: WATSON, 3, QUEEN'S HEAD PASSAGE, PATERNOSTER-ROW. MDCCCXLIX. PROEM. THE highest truths of transcendental metaphysics will one day reach the populace. Not only the standard of intellect, but that of morality, will be raised. The race of the Papinians, the Cromwells, and Marvels will be multiplied. It was once said all could Now they do learn these not learn to read, write, and account. and other things. They will one day learn all things. Intellect will conquer all obstacles, and teach the human race to realise untold perfection. But it will be accomplished piece-meal. Progression is a series of stages. Individuals first, then groups, then classes, then nations are raised. You can no more introduce, at once, the multitude to the highest results of philosophy, than you can take a man to the summit of a monument without ascending the steps, or reach a distant land without travelling the journey. This book is a stage. As the preceding ones in this series, it is designed for the class of young thinkers to whom knowledge has given some intellectual aspiration, and fate denied the means of its scholastic gratification. It is therefore neither elementary nor ultimate, but a medium between the two. It addresses itself to a want. It deals in results. It dictates doing. Spontaneous life is the life of the people. Their knowledge is confined to phenomena. Their practical philosophy is the reality of Hobbism. Disguise it as we may, their sensation is suffering, their reflection revenge-their sole business, the betterance of their condition. All you can do is to guide their rude interpretation of nature, men, and manners-to give plain method to their classifi |