Introduction ii 



The purpose of this consideration of the concept of method 

 is therefore a twofold one: it attempts, in the first place, by a 

 consideration of typical examples, to analyse the process of ex- 

 perience, both individual and social, in such a way as to show 

 that its fundamental characteristics are Unity, Interaction, and 

 Development; and it seeks, in the second place, to indicate the 

 method of experience, the function of knowledge in raising ac- 

 tivity to consciousness, and the method of the education of the 

 individual through the social selection of materials and the 

 social control of individual activities by means of the function of 

 a standard of method. 



