# The Philosophy of Style

Author: Spencer, Herbert, 1820-1903

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5849

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## Summary

Sec. 1. Commenting on the seeming incongruity between his father's argumentative powers and his ignorance of formal logic, Tristram Shandy says:--"It was a matter of just wonder with my worthy tutor, and two or three fellows of that learned society, that a man who knew not so much as the names of his tools, should be able to work after that fashion with them." Sterne's intended implication that a knowledge of the principles of reasoning neither makes, nor is essential to, a good reasoner, is doubtless true. Thus, too, is it with grammar. As Dr. Latham, condemning the usual school-drill in Lindley Murray, rightly remarks: "Gross vulgarity is a fault to be prevented; but the proper preventi...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-style-5849/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-philosophy-of-style-5849/chapters/2/index.md)