CHAPTER IX

THE WAY OF THE REASON 139

Reason brings forward infallible proofs--May be furtherer of counsels, good _or_ bad--Inventions--How did you think of it?--Children should follow steps of reasoning--Psychology of crime--Reasonable and right, not synonymous--Reason works involuntarily--Reason never begins it--Reason will affirm any theory--Logic, the formula of reason--But not necessarily right--Beauty and wonder of act of reasoning--But there are limitations--We must be able to expose fallacies--Karl Marx--Socialistic thought of to-day--Reason requires material to work upon--Reason subject to habit--Children must have principles--Be able to detect fallacies--Must know what Religion is--Miracles--Quasi-religious offers--Great things of life cannot be proved--Reason is fallible--Children, intensely reasonable--Reasoning power of a child does not wait upon training--But children do not generalise--Must not be hurried to formulate--Mathematics should not monopolise undue time--Cannot alone produce a reasonable soul.