Photograph of Simple Division or Logic a La Mode [Alfred Plummer, Fellow of Trinity College, sitting on a throne with mace in right hand; male figure on left brandishing cutlass inscribed with 'Collection', with Kant, Hamilton and Mansell on his body and right leg ; to his right a male (Aristotle) in classical clothes, balancing 2 undergraduates in left hand. Those two people behave like Babies (Concept). [Therefore] They are Babies (Judgement Logical). [Therefore] They must be treated like Babies (Inference) N.B. The habitual Treatment of babies is (as is well known) to Divide Them. Note: allusion also to the Judgement of Solomon] [John Johnson 24] by Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
G.A. Oxon. 4o 412, fol. 24
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Photograph of Simple Division or Logic a La Mode [Alfred Plummer, Fellow of Trinity College, sitting on a throne with mace in right hand; male figure on left brandishing cutlass inscribed with 'Collection', with Kant, Hamilton and Mansell on his body and right leg ; to his right a male (Aristotle) in classical clothes, balancing 2 undergraduates in left hand. Those two people behave like Babies (Concept). [Therefore] They are Babies (Judgement Logical). [Therefore] They must be treated like Babies (Inference) N.B. The habitual Treatment of babies is (as is well known) to Divide Them. Note: allusion also to the Judgement of Solomon] [John Johnson 24] by Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
Shelfmark
G.A. Oxon. 4o 412, fol. 24
Date
[c.1870]
Language
English
Physical extent
1 item
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Collection contents
Shrimpton's Oxford Caricatures
Shrimpton caricatures Volume 1
Photograph of Simple Division or Logic a La Mode [Alfred Plummer, Fellow of Trinity College, sitting on a throne with mace in right hand; male figure on left brandishing cutlass inscribed with 'Collection', with Kant, Hamilton and Mansell on his body and right leg ; to his right a male (Aristotle) in classical clothes, balancing 2 undergraduates in left hand. Those two people behave like Babies (Concept). [Therefore] They are Babies (Judgement Logical). [Therefore] They must be treated like Babies (Inference) N.B. The habitual Treatment of babies is (as is well known) to Divide Them. Note: allusion also to the Judgement of Solomon] [John Johnson 24] by Thomas Shrimpton & Son publ.
