the SHREW, a genus of animals belonging to the class of mammalia, and order of ferae. See MAMMALIA Index.

SORITES, in Logic, a species of reasoning in which a great number of propositions are so linked together, that the predicate of the one becomes continually the subject of the next following, till at last a conclusion is formed by bringing together the subject of the first proposition and the predicate of the last. Such was that merry argument of Themistocles, to prove that his little son under ten years old governed the whole world. Thus: My son governs his mother; his mother me; I the Athenians; the Athenians the Greeks; Greece commands Europe; Europe the whole world; therefore my son commands the whole world. See LOGIC, No. 96, 97.