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in developing careful, accurate, truthful, upright men 

 and women. 



In this moral development, or training in habits of 

 exactness and truthfulness, science work may be much 

 more effective than arithmetic or mathematics. Scien- 

 tific methods of observation and reasoning, involving 

 exact observation of facts and conditions, careful com- 

 parison of these and discrimination between important 

 and unimportant features, and cautious conclusions or 

 generalizations based on them, have much wider appli- 

 cation in life than has mathematical reasoning. The 

 reasoning of life is largely inductive, not to any great 

 extent deductive, as is most work in arithmetic. 



