506 INDUCTION. 



being, from the very nature of the case, inefficient and illu 

 sory, there remains only the third, that which considers the 

 causes separately, and infers the effect from the balance 

 of the different tendencies which produce it: in short, the 

 deductive, or a priori method. The more particular con 

 sideration of this intellectual process requires a chapter to 

 itself. 



