Pathos Is No Fallacy

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“They require not so much reasoning as heart-argument — which is logic set on fire . . . argument must be quickened into persuasion by the living warmth of love. Cold logic has its force, but when made red hot with affection the power of tender argument is inconceivable . . . When passionate zeal has carried the man himself away his speech becomes an irresistible torrent, sweeping all before it” (Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 341).

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