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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 



CHAPTEE YI. General Considerations on the Social Science. 



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



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



CHAPTER Vli. 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 Eesidues 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 



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 



