The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 166

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Excerpt from The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 166: Devoted to Science and the Mechanic Arts, July December, 1908 Here the analogy of night following day, is used to illustrate and impress the certainty with which the result of not being false to any man, must follow, if one is true to himself. The psychological value Of these literary analogies, as Herbert Spencer has pointed out in his Essay on Style, is gain in economy of thought. They give, with the minimum attention to the sym bols of thought, the maximum of mental impression. In popular jargon and much literature we find the words: likeness, similarity, analogy, loosely used to have the same significance. But when science replaces literature, all the clearness and precision that it is possible to give to the meaning of words must be Observed. When the word, analogy, is to be used carefully and in a seien tific sense, it may be best defined as the exact translation of its Greek original, o'wa', according to, and lo'yo: proportion, which signifies, equality of ratios, or an agreement between the relations Of things to one another. By this it is to be understood that two or more objects are analogous, if, when certain elements, which define them, are mentally abstracted, these are found to be equal, or in numerical relations that are proportionate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.