Excerpt from Boy's Book on Logic: A Talk, Not a Treatise Because I think boys have open minds, this book has been made for boys only. They like to take a watch apart to see what there is in it. They care nothing for style and dignity and pretension, which the older fellows so dearly love. The poet Keats discovered that the imagination of a boy is healthy. Girls believe there is no fun in thinking unless it is about some person. The old folks do not like to look into things because it disturbs their serenity. They regard boys as little animals with inquiring minds. Their own minds are packed with judgments and convictions that other people have rammed into them, and they think peace and rest the only fun in the world.

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