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rational and relevant, original, automatically initiated, and me- 

 thodically developed. (Conclusion 25.) (26) We also remember 

 to postpone indulging in large generalisations until near the 

 conclusion of the investigation. (Conclusion 26.) (27) We ex- 

 haust the degree of applicability of a conclusion, and also strive 

 to discover parallel, distantly related, and seemingly unrelated, 

 instances. (Conclusion 27.) (28) We proceed dialectically, and 

 search for what is contradictory, contrary, opposite, common, dis- 

 parate, supplementary, alternative, complementary, dependent, 

 interdependent, and relative. (Conclusion 28.) (29) We should 

 be on our guard against error, and therefore need to verify what 

 we deem that we have already ascertained. Moreover, generali- 

 sations and deductions being admittedly hypothetical, veri- 

 fication and demonstration are essential if they are not to prove 

 broken reeds. Indeed, verification must needs be resorted to 

 at every stage of the enquiry. (Conclusion 29.) (30) After 

 having exhausted and gradually consolidated the various lines of 

 the inductive enquiry, we aim at a balanced jnterim statement 

 which is also to serve as a basis for the fuller deductive pro- 

 cess. (Conclusion 30.) (31) The moment we possess statements 

 which are at all reliable, we endeavour not only to extend them, 

 but we see whether we can deduce anything from them. There 

 is need of strenuous mental application in the process of deduc- 

 tion, and need of the deductions being graded, comprehensive, 

 important, full, rational and relevant, original, automatically 

 initiated, and methodically developed. (Conclusion 31.) (32) We 

 complete the deductive enquiry by drawing whatever practical 

 deductions the circumstances permit. (Conclusion 32.) (33) We 

 also recognise the necessity, more especially in the last stages 

 of an enquiry, of judiciously classifying facts. (Conclusion 33.) 

 (34) We formulate a comprehensive final statement. (Con- 

 clusion 34.) (35) We acknowledge the need of being concise 

 in statements, of circumspectly summing up, and of writing 

 acceptably. (Conclusion 35.) (36) And, finally, we recognise 

 formally the need of respecting each of the above Conclusions 

 in all the above Conclusions, of improving these, and of applying 

 them systematically to the life of practice. (Conclusion 36.) 

 65. If, in imagination, we place ourselves in the hoped-for 

 future when practically all men and women will be models as 

 regards scientific thought, and when language itself will be a 

 scientifically fashioned instrument, we shall find the adage "non 

 multa, sed multum" exemplified there. Such will be the effec- 

 tiveness of thought and the treasure of accurate and syste- 

 matised information absorbed by each that, on an investigator 

 publishing merely the full definition or generalisation he has 

 arrived at, those interested will be mostly able to infer not a little 

 that is of moment with ease and promptitude. Conversely, the 

 investigator himself will be so perfect a methodologist aided by 

 classifications, notations, tables, diagrams, machines, etc. that. 



