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"Call this '_philosophical parsing_, on reasoning principles, according to the original laws of nature and of thought,' and _the pill will be swallowed_, by pedants and their dupes, with the greatest ease imaginable."-- _Kirkham's Gram._, p.144.

"For the _satisfaction_ of those teachers who prefer it, and _for their adoption, too_, a modernized philosophical theory of the moods and tenses is here presented.

If it is not quite so convenient and useful as the old one, they need not hesitate to adopt it.

It has the advantage of being _new_; and, moreover, it sounds _large_, and will make the _commonalty stare_.

Let it be distinctly understood that you teach '[_Kirkham's_] _philosophical grammar_, founded on reason and common sense,' and you will pass for a very learned man, and make all the good housewives wonder at the rapid march of intellect, and the vast improvements of the age."-- _Ib._, p.