But he had outgrown her.

It was incontestable that there were three kinds,--the good, the bad, and the partly good and partly bad.

That the last usually went bad, he believed firmly.

In its very nature such a condition could not be permanent.

It was the intermediary stage, marking the passage from high to low, from best to worst.
All of which might have been true, even as he saw it; but with definitions for premises, conclusions cannot fail to be dogmatic.