Descartes said, "I think; therefore I am." The philosophic evolutionist reverses and negatives the epigram.

He says, "I am not; therefore I cannot think." Then there is the opposite attack on thought: that urged by Mr.H.G.
Wells when he insists that every separate thing is "unique," and there are no categories at all.

This also is merely destructive.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

It need hardly be said that this scepticism forbidding thought necessarily forbids speech; a man cannot open his mouth without contradicting it.
Thus when Mr.Wells says (as he did somewhere), "All chairs are quite different," he utters not merely a misstatement, but a contradiction in terms.