INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Absolutism and relativism in metho- 

 dology, 17-22; will gradually dis- 

 place relativism, 21-22; the mind 

 is relativist in structure, 36, and 

 why, 38; relativist logic needed, 53; 

 absolutist statements, 56 ; absolutist 

 theory of generalisation, 101; law 

 of relativity applied to relation of 

 science to life, 169-170; relative 

 results and absolutist statements, 

 362; Einstein's theory, 376-377; 

 relativism in classifications, 396. 



Abstraction, 142. 



Accuracy, definition of, 130; 259-261; 

 initial and scrupulous , 259; con- 

 ditions favouring , 260. 



Action at a distance, 5. 



Administration, the basic reconstruc- 

 tion of public administrative acti- 

 vities, 202; reorganisation of pu- 

 blic s on scientific and democratic 

 basis, 225; criticism of public s, 

 311312 



^Esthetics, 19, 86, 103, 115-116, 194, 

 230, 277, 312, 318, 344, 345, 354, 

 370, 372, 410; spread of taste and 

 refinement, 21; study of , 173; 

 basic reconstruction of art activities, 

 202 : education in , 224 ; art pene- 

 trating all vocations, 229; religion 

 of art, 253; main problems of , 

 332. 



Agriculture, ceasing to be empirical, 

 169; study of, 172-173; method 

 in , 281; scope of agriculturist's 

 interests, 315; main problems of , 

 333. 



Alchemy and chemistry, 29; al- 

 chemists, 45. 



Alertness, need of habitual, 308-312. 



Analogy, danger and value of, 

 194-195. 



Anthropology, 105, 194, 274-275, 280, 

 281, 293-294, 297, 346, 357, 358, 

 359; craniology, 185-187; ethnology, 

 188-189. 



Appendicitis, 283. 



Applied science, 32, 411 ; line between 



pure and elusive, 7 ; under- and 



over-emphasis of - , 8; science 

 and life increasingly approach each 



other, 169; need of drawing practi- 

 cal deductions, 381-391 ; the process 

 of enquiry must include practical 

 deductions, 381-382, 383; Bacon's 

 rule, 384; adumbration of a scienti- 

 fic language, 384-391. 



Archaeology, 21. 



Aristotle, his method, 186-187; his 

 introduction to medieval Europe, 

 211-212. 



Assumption, fundamental, pervading 

 this treatise, 1-3. 



Astrologers, 45. 



Astronomy, 5, 8, 21, 30, 57, 58, 84, 

 92, 94, 105, 107, 109, 114, 118, 120, 

 185, 194, 261, 267, 268, 276, 297, 

 317, 318, 319-320, 326, 332, 344, 

 345, 360, 376, 382, 393. 



Atmosphere, 21, 344; composition 

 of , troposphere and stratosphere, 

 273. 



Authority, 32. 



Bacon, Francis, as absolutist, 17-18; 

 on the nature of heat, and the pur- 

 pose of science, 42-43; on experi- 

 menting, 44 ; Shakespeare-Bacon 

 controversy examined, 65-68; on 

 deduction, 118; and Descartes, 

 119; on measurement and mathe- 

 matics, 126-128 ; criticism of by 

 Macaulay, 135-142; what com- 

 bated, 141 ; his case for a metho- 

 dology, 141-142; on the scientific 

 thinker and on himself, 145; 's 

 method, on the mist of tradition, 

 150; historic explanation of 's me- 

 thodology, 167. 



Bacon, Roger, his methodological 

 position, 45-47 ; historic explana- 

 tion of his crudity, 167. 



Bain, Alexander, on methodological 

 requirements, 146. 



Beaumont and Fletcher, their praise, 

 71. 



Bergson, on intuition, 10; reality as 

 a flux, 56; his defence of indeter- ' 

 minism, 64. 



Beri-beri, in the Japanese navy, 139, 

 309. 



Biology, 19, 22, 28, 30, 58, 84, 86, 108, 

 115, 194, 270, 274, 294, 307, 312, 



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