CHAPTER VI 



RESPONSIVENESS 



THE principles already presented deserve 

 consideration as secondary laws. Precedence 

 has been given to present facts, among which 

 those readily accessible were preferred. Proof 

 should move from the obvious to the obscure, 

 from the present to the past, from the known 

 to the unknown, from concrete instances to 

 inferred generalizations, and from the external 

 to the internal. The present, the known, the 

 concrete, and the observed should give a body 

 of secondary laws, and these, through reflection, 

 deduction, unification, and generalization, may 

 be transformed into primary laws. If what 

 has been said has a surface correctness, the 

 results deserve notice, and if the plan is cor- 

 rect, they should be capable of restatement in 

 more fundamental forms. 



The general result alone needs restatement, 

 for it is the sole basis of what follows. The 



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