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trustworthy, in order to determine, by systematic comparison of his 
statements with the statements of others, whether such individual was 
in point of fact in the full sense trustworthy. 
None of the persons of whom inquiry was made associated their 
confidence in the trusted individual with his nearness in time and place 
to occurrences which were the subject of his statements, nor did any 
of them limit their confidence in the trusted individuals to statements 
bearing on occurrences to which the trusted individuals were closely 
related in time and place. Their confidence was a general confidence; 
and when the trusted individual made a statement, they felt it necessary 
to believe, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, that either per- 
sonally or through trustworthy channels he had all the opportunities 
and all the access to information necessary to make his statement 
trustworthy. 
They accepted the statements of the trusted individual, therefore; 
as correct except in those points, if any, in which they of their own 
knowledge knew, when he made the statement, that he was in error; 
or in those points, if any, in which subsequent developments showed 
that he had been in error. 
IV. THE CORRECT PROCESSES AND THEIR APPLICATIVE 
PRINCIPLES IN HISTORICAL SCIENCE. 
(a) THE Five Correct Processes oF HISTORICAL SCIENCE. 
Summarily stated, the processes which exemplify the five requisites 
for trustworthiness in the individual are: 
1. Right Discernment and Clear Statement. 
2. Serious Effort to Inform the Hearer according to: his 
Interest. 
3. Exercise of Impartiality. 
4. Preservation of Poise. 
5. Exclusion of Admittedly Unnecessary Conclusions from 
Spontaneous Statements made for the Information of the Hearer. 
