Missing that aim, the Rosicrucian story lived to be adorned by superstitious fancy, with ideas of mystery and magic, which in the Comte de Gabalis were methodized into a consistent romance.
Such being the case, what is the use or value of dialectic debate, or of a methodized procedure for conducting it?
Mr. Grote's profound interest in everything pertaining to Dialectic drew him especially to this work, as the exhibition in detail of that habit of methodized discussion so deep rooted in the Hellenic mind.
First, the debate is a valuable and stimulating mental exercise; and, if a methodized procedure be laid down, both parties will be able to conduct it more easily as well as more efficaciously.
Though his hand were not drawing a dagger, who would expect mercy or remorse from the evil methodized villainy of that eye?
I remember, that, in one of my last conversations with the late Lord Camden, we were struck much in the same manner with the abolition in France of the law as a science of methodized and artificial equity.
