your refutation be unanswerable. Nothing makes a more damaging impression of feebleness than to grapple with the objector without clearly overthrowing him. Your hearer is thus taught by yourself to suspect the justice of your arguments. 3. Opposers should always be treated with fairness and courtesy, except where their own insolence or wickedness demands chastisement. One application of this maxim is to teach us abstinence from the use of controversial phrases, party names and all the old war-cries