(Excerpt from Elements of Deductive Logic
This treatise i...)
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This treatise is designed as a text-book for undergraduates. It comprises the body of approved logical doctrine, so that in a limited time a student may acquire a rounded knowledge of the fundamental forms of thought, be profited by the excellent discipline of the study, and prepared for the pursuit of philosophical sciences.
Those who wish to go beyond the elements of logic will find much additional matter in my larger work, entitled "The Theory of Thought," designed especially for universities. In my "Elements of Psychology" are explained the relation of the idea as a mental image to the notion as a product of thought, and the various mental processes involved in thinking. In both works many references will be found to authorities and to the literature of the subject.
In the preparation of the present text, I have tried to be clear, simple, and true, and to mitigate the natural severity of the subject by copious illustration.
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Noah Knowles Davis was an American teacher and author of gracefully written and cogently built up books. His lectures were very popular among studens and adults as well.
Background
Noah Knowles Davis was born on May 15, 1830 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. He was the son of Noah Davis of Maryland and Mary (Young) Davis of Alexandria, Virginia, United States, where his father, a minister still under thirty, was in charge of the recently formed Baptist Tract Society. In July 1830, his father died, and a few years later his mother was married to John L. Dagg, like herself a Virginian, and like her former husband a Baptist ecclesiastic. The Dagg family removed to the far south.
Education
In 1849, during his step-father’s term as its president, Noah Davis was graduated from the sectarian Mercer College, then located in Penfield, Georgia.
Soon afterward he went to Philadelphia and studied chemistry.
Career
Davis was for about twenty years connected with the faculties of various Baptist colleges.
From 1852 to 1863 he was in Alabama, for seven years as teacher of natural science in Howard College, and for the remaining six as head of the Judson Female Institute. From 1873 to 1906 he was professor of moral philosophy in the University of Virginia. He was an effective teacher, learned, diligent, and sincere. His writings were largely of the kind used as text-books.
His Theory of Thought (1880) was followed by his series: Elements of Psychology (1892), Elements of Deductive Logic (1893), Elements of Inductive Logic (1895), and Elements of Ethics (1900) —a group employed, it is said, in more than fifty schools and colleges, and so highly regarded as to be “analyzed” in a volume specially devoted to the purpose by his one-time student, the Methodist bishop, Collins Denny. These books, gracefully written and cogently built up, did not neglect the uses and even claims of deterministic scrutiny, but their author kept himself free to abandon all these uses and claims when he believed that more valid considerations presented themselves.
He adhered, in short, to the age-old concepts of virtue by which he was dominated, and by which he was exalted into something approaching greatness.
For if he was a metaphysician pondering on Reality in the abstract, he was as well a conforming Baptist whose experience on the Southern frontier had made plain for him other realities which he could never quite disregard.
In the early eighties he inaugurated his custom of delivering a religious discourse every Sunday.
These lectures were popular in the university community, and the substance of them was made available to a wider audience in his three religious volumes, Juda’s Jewels, a Study of the Hebrew Lyrics (1895), Synopsis of Events in the Life of Jesus of Nazareth (1900), and The Story of the Nasarene in Annotated Paraphrase (1903).
The last four years of his life were spent in retirement in Charlottesville.
Achievements
Davis served as president of Bethel College, in Kentucky.
Davis did not hesitate, for example, to condemn a speculation as in essence illusory if, put into practise, it would befog what he considered the ideal goal of mankind, nor did he hesitate to assume the existence of a thing if its existence had been wished for by many good men for many generations.
Personality
Davis was an effective teacher, learned, diligent, and sincere.
He was a large man, stooped, bearded, deliberate, garbed in baggy black, crowned with a high silk hat—eccentric to look upon, eccentric too, in many of his opinions—openly, a little boisterously, irreverent of much knowledge usually held sacrosanct.
Connections
In 1856 Davis married Ella Hunt of Albany, Georgia.
