Excerpt from University of California Publications in Philosophy, Vol. 3 In the introductory pages of his Formal Logic, Professor Schiller remarks, in a somewhat disheartened mood, it is not unlikely that this whole revolt will come to nothing and that Logic will continue to be taught on the traditional lines. He takes comfort, however, in the belief that the failure of the reform movement will not be due to any intrinsic error or weak ness in the movement itself, but to the fact that the prestige of tradition is so overwhelming, the force of habit so insidious. Dr. Mercier in the preface to his New Logic also expresses gloomy misgivings as to the fate of his volume. He says by the time the New Logic has stood two thousand years no doubt it will have had all the guts taken out of it. I think, however, that no serious attempt will be made to disembowel his book. Dr. Mercier has been disappointed, so he says, that none of the older writers, Bosanquet, for instance, have replied to his criticisms. It seems more likely therefore, that his volume will be allowed to dry up with its entrails in it and become an interesting object for antiquarian research in the generations to come. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.