Edgar Allan Poe

Eureka Edgar Allan Poe

"But, even through evidence afforded by themselves against themselves, it is easy to convict these à priori reasoners of the grossest unreason-it is easy to show the futility-the impalpability of their axioms in general. I have now lying before me"-it will be observed that we still proceed with the letter-"I have now lying before me a book printed about a thousand years ago. Pundit assures me that it is decidedly the cleverest ancient work on its topic, which is 'Logic.' The author, who was much esteemed in his day, was one Miller, or Mill; and we find it recorded of him, as a point of some importance, that he rode a mill-horse whom he called Jeremy Bentham: -but let us glance at the volume itself!