Excerpt from The Logic of Reason, Universal and Eternal Physical Science Speculative Philosophy are fast forcing to the result, that knowledge cannot be made so positive as wholly to displace sincere scepticism by any modes of logic or dialectic hitherto applied. Through all past ages an assumed knowledge has been able to find some ground on which to maintain its own convictions, but never with so clear a title that scepticism has not interposed its honest doubt of entire validity. In the present age, the ultimate sources for both conviction and doubt are so closely examined, that the crisis seems approaching in which the two cannot stand together on common ground, and longer dispute the right to possession, but one or the other will attain an acknowledged exclusive ownership. 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.