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Show MAN NOT LOGICAL MACHINE V-Vfin tho Greatest Debaters Are Often Illogical lit Presenting Arguments. Tho writers of formal logics scont to havo assumed that man Is a logical rnachlno, that he weighs evidence, for-" mutates It Into syllogistic order and then reaches tho conclusions on which ho bases tils actions. Tho moro modern mod-ern conception of man Is that ho Is a creature who rarely reasons at all, says Walter Dill Scott, In Tnlont. Indood, one or tho greatest students of tho human hu-man mind assures us that most persons per-sons novor perform nn act of reasoning nt all, but that all their actions nro tho results of Imitation, habit, suggestion or somo related form of thinking which Is distinctly below thnt which could bo called reasoning. Our most Importnnt actions nro performed and our most sacred conceptions nro reached y means of tho merest suggestion. Great commanders of men are not thoso who aro best skilled in reasoning with their subordinates. Tho greatest Inquirers of men nro not thoso who nro most loglcnl In presenting thlcr truths to the multitude. Even our greatest debaters aro not those who nro most logical In presenting tho arguments In favor of their sldo of tho question. In moving nnd Inspiring men suggestion Is to bo considered ns In overy wny tho equal of logical reasoning, nnd ns such Is to bo rnado tho. object of consideration for every man who Is Interested In moving his follows. |