56 PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES ON 



" But Darwin's investigations have not ended research, or completed 

 philosophy. He brought scientific men to the frontier of truth, and showed 

 them a path across the border. Yet more than this he did. He pointed out 

 one of the fundamental methods of research. Before his time philosophers 

 talked about deductive methods and inductive methods. Darwin has taught 



us that both are fruitless It would perhaps be better 



to say that deductive and inductive methods have been superseded by the 

 method of working hypotheses. "Working hypotheses are the instruments 

 with which scientific men select facts. By them reason and imagination are 

 conjoined, and all the power of the mind employed in research." — 

 J. W. Powell, Ph. D.— Life of D.uiwaN, by C. F. Holden, pp. 224 and 226. 



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