There is a way of managing an Argument not much unlike the former, which is made use of by States and Communities, when they draw up a hundred thousand Disputants on each Side, and convince one another by Dint of Sword.
certain Grand Monarch
was so sensible of his Strength in this way of Reasoning, that he writ upon his Great Guns—
Ratio ultima Regum, The Logick of Kings
; but, God be thanked, he is now pretty well baffled at his own Weapons. When
was to do with a Philosopher of this kind, one should remember the old Gentleman's Saying, who had been engaged in an Argument with one of the
Roman