79), which is, _not_ what are my sentiments and judgements, but whether he had a right to dissolve and distort my chain of reasoning (see I.above) while affecting to quote me, and pretending that I gave nothing but assertion.

As regards my "elaborately and carefully _scratching out_," this was done; 1.

Because the passage seemed to me superfluous; 2.
Because I had pressed the topic elsewhere; 3.

Because I was going to enlarge on it in my reply to him, p.

199 of my second edition.[12] When the real place comes where my critic is to deal with the substance of the passage (p.