In all that man voluntarily does, liberty has its
own share; and liberty, which nowhere exists
without intelligence, is ever the source of pro-
gress and perfection. Man learns how to think
as he learns how to speak, read, write, and sing,
to move his body gracefully, and to use all the
powers of mind^nd body.
Logic teaches the art of thinking. The
orator therefore must be a good logician ; not

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alone theoretically, but practically. It is not
his business to know how to declaim about
the origin and formation of ideas, nor about
the four operations of thought. It is not
the method of teaching, but the use of logic
which he requires, — and a prompt and dex-
terous familiarity with it he will not acquire
except by long and repeated exercises, under the
guidance of an experienced thinker, an artist of
thought, who will teach him how to do with
ease what he knows how to do already of him-
self imperfectly.
