Twelfth: the traits of the writer's style

12Twelfth: the traits of the writer's style

• The logical method: he begins with a definition, then builds premises, then draws out conclusions.
• Reasoning by example: he relies on examples close to life — football and chess, the train, industry.
• Clarity: his words are simple and his sentences tightly linked, without forced ornament.
• Gradation in presentation: he moves from the definition to its application on the conditions of society.
• Intellectual allegiance: he represents the current of thinkers who bind thought to action and hold that renaissance rests on changing values.
• Connectives: he is frequent in the logical particles — fa-idhā (so), in (if), lākin (but), wa-min thamm (and hence).