<P> Isaac Watts' Logic became the standard text on logic at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, being used at Oxford for well over 100 years . C.S. Peirce, the great nineteenth - century logician, wrote favorably of Watts' Logic . When preparing his own textbook, entitled A Critick of Arguments: How to Reason (also known as the Grand Logic), Peirce wrote,' I shall suppose the reader to be acquainted with what is contained in Dr Watts' Logick, a book...far superior to the treatises now used in colleges, being the production of a man distinguished for good sense .' </P> <P> Watts followed the Logic in 1741 by a supplement, The Improvement of the Mind . This also went through numerous editions and later inspired Michael Faraday . It was also widely used as a moral textbook in schools . </P> <P> On his death, Isaac Watts' papers were given to Yale University in the Colony of Connecticut, which Nonconformists had established . King Edward VI School, which he attended, named one of its houses "Watts" in his honour . </P> <P> The Church of England and Lutheran Church remember Watts (and his ministerial service) annually in the Calendar of Saints on November 25, and the Episcopal Church on the following day . </P>

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