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(8) Observe shunning hearsay, being observant, and observ- 

 ing or examining minutely, widely, and exhaustively as to 

 space and time and circumstance ; considering nothing as com- 

 monplace, settled, or uninteresting; persistently re-observing 

 and re-examining for new facts; using instruments and ex- 

 periment wherever practicable; keeping the faculty of wonder 

 alive; being observant as to temporal, spatial, and ideational 

 environment and causes. 



(9) Recollect observing with a view to remembering and 

 recalling; guarding against a bad or unreliable memory by 

 keeping adequate and accurate notes ; training the memory and 

 utilising it in constructive thought. 



(10) Trace explain, follow, interpret, completely account for. 



(11) Generalise to generalise, when practicable, every single 

 static or dynamic fact to the entire class, and not only to a 

 second or third fact ; and at once, but step by step, to generalise 

 from one class to a countless number of other classes related 

 by degree and variety, until an imposing generalisation is, if 

 possible, reached; to aim at circumstantial generalisations and 

 not at mere empty and abstract propositions. 



(12) Deduce to deduce before being, and whilst, engaged in 

 generalising, and afterwards; to base a deduction on reliable 

 statements and test it adequately. 



(13) Verify to verify, re-examine, re-calculate a supposed 

 fact; carefully to traverse ground passed over before; to ex- 

 amine in order to test a hypothesis, deduction, or statement. 



(14) Apply to apply a theoretical truth in its corresponding 

 practical field, and convert a practical truth into a theoretical 

 one ; to let theory and practice minister to each other ; to utilise 

 every opportunity for as many purposes as possible. 



(15) Classify to classify results in an orderly manner, show- 

 ing at a glance what has been attained, and connect the re- 

 sults with other and larger classifications. 



(16) Define to define the principal terms and the main con- 

 clusions compactly and as exactly as possible; to let one's 

 reflections and statements tend to approximate rigid definiteness. 



(17) Improve -always to think of how to improve upon what 

 one has achieved or is engaged on. 



(18) Facts facts, imaginings, statements, events, happenings, 

 processes, including the environment as a fact, factors, causes, 

 forces, movements, conditions, relations, facts of space, time, 

 and consciousness, and of number, degree, state, change, and 

 persona] equation. 



(19) Open-minded to regard all conclusions, results, and 

 statements as more or less subject to correction ; admitting the 

 possibility of error everywhere ; undogmatic, approachable, open 

 to reason. 



