Dialogue

 1 Intro|         draw between Eristic and Dialectic, is really a criticism of
 2 Intro|        through a spurious use of dialectic, the distinctions which
 3 Intro|        art of midwifery, and all dialectic, is an enormous folly, if
 4 Intro|        Nay, but the true hero of dialectic would have forbidden me
 5 Intro|      expression, ‘full of impure dialectic’; or the lively images under
 6 Intro| discourse of reason; the hymn of dialectic, the science of relations,
 7 Intro|            a shadow of a part of Dialectic or Metaphysic’ (Gorg.).~
 8  Thea|   midwifery and the whole art of dialectic is placed; for the attempt
 9  Thea|         from the abstractions of dialectic to geometry. Nevertheless,
10  Thea|     between mere disputation and dialectic: the disputer may trip up
11  Thea|         if I were a true hero of dialectic: and O that such an one
12  Thea|          difficulty. The hero of dialectic will retort upon us:—‘O