(2) If they stay abroad, the wife will die; while the husband's lungs will not stand the English climate. It is to be feared therefore that one must fall a victim.
(3) He is either very good, very bad, or commonplace. But he is not very good.
(4) Either a slave is capable of virtue or he is not.
.'. Either he ought not to be a slave or he is not a man.
(5) Does not his feebleness of character indicate either a bad
training or a natural imbecility?
(6) Those who ask shan't have; those who don't ask don't want.
(7) If a man be mad, he deviates from the common standard of
intellect.
.'. If all men be alike mad, no one is mad.
(8) 'I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.'
2. 'The infinite divisibility of space implies that of time. If the latter therefore be impossible, the former must be equally so.' Formulate this argument as an immediate inference.
3. Examine the following arguments—
(1) If we have a dusty spring, there is always a good wheat harvest. We shall therefore have a poor harvest this year, for the spring has not been dusty.