Francis William Newman Quote

On the whole, Analogy is to be regarded as a step towards satisfactory proof, much in advance of first presumptions, if skillfully applied; though if the excessive vagueness of the word like be not checked, arguments from analogy may be of the wildest and silliest kind.


Lectures on Logic, Section IV (p. 96), J.H. Parker. 1838


On the whole, Analogy is to be regarded as a step towards satisfactory proof, much in advance of first presumptions, if skillfully applied; though if ...

On the whole, Analogy is to be regarded as a step towards satisfactory proof, much in advance of first presumptions, if skillfully applied; though if ...

On the whole, Analogy is to be regarded as a step towards satisfactory proof, much in advance of first presumptions, if skillfully applied; though if ...

On the whole, Analogy is to be regarded as a step towards satisfactory proof, much in advance of first presumptions, if skillfully applied; though if ...