"Logical system" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Four Hundred idea as a logical system was broken by the quality of some of its members. Compared to the society I have previously mentioned it was as chaff. There was a total lack of intellectuality. Degeneracy marked some of their acts; divorce blackened their records, and shameless affairs marked them. In this "set," and particularly ...
— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous
... brought by division and subdivision within an orderly scheme of classification. To any conceivable idea or thing capable of being represented by human speech might therefore be attached a corresponding word, like a label, on a perfectly regular and logical system. Words would thus be self-explanatory to any person who had grasped the system, and would serve as an index or key to the things they represented. Language thus became a branch of philosophy as the men of the time conceived it, or ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark |
