ANALYSIS

Introduction.

Conversation:

(1) is universal;

(2) is necessary; and therefore

(3) Is it an art? ([§ 2])

(4) Can it be improved?

The great difficulty is this: that it must seem to be natural, and not an art. Hence—

(5) Analogy of the arts of logic and rhetoric ([§ 3], [§ 4]), viz.—