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3. The laws of the formation of character cannot be ascer 

 tained by observation and experiment . . . 449 



4. but must be studied deductively. . . . 454 



5. The Principles of Ethology are the axiomata media of 



mental science ...... 455 



6. Ethology characterized ..... 459 



CHAPTER VI. General Considerations on the Social Science. 

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1. Are Social Phenomena a subject of Science? . , 461 



2. Of what nature the Social Science must be . . 463 



CHAPTER VII. Of the Chemical, or Experimental, Method in the 

 Social Science. 



1. Characters of the mode of thinking which deduces political 



doctrines from specific experience . . . 466 



2. In the Social Science experiments are impossible . . 468 



3. the Method of Difference inapplicable . . . 469 



4. and the Methods of Agreement, and of Concomitant 



Variations, inconclusive ..... 471 



5. The Method of Residues also inconclusive, and presup 



poses Deduction ...... 472 



^ CHAPTER VIII. Of the Geometrical, or Abstract Method. 



1. Characters of this mode of thinking . . . 476-- 



2. Examples of the Geometrical Method . . . 478 



3. The interest-philosophy of the Bentham school . . 479 



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CHAPTER IX. Of the Physical, or Concrete Deductive Method. 



1. The Direct and Inverse Deductive Methods . . 486 



2. Difficulties of the Direct Deductive Method in the Social 



Science . . . . . . 489 



3. To what extent the different branches of sociological 



speculation can be studied apart. Political Economy 



characterized ...... 492 



4. Political Ethology, or the science of national character . 497 



5. The Empirical Laws of the Social Science . . 500 



6. The Verification of the Social Science . . . 502 



