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So, also, the imperfections of evidence as to the motives and 

 purposes inspiring the action will become more discernible in 

 proportion to the fulness of our conception of what the evidence 

 should be to distinguish between action from the one or the 

 other of possible motives. The necessary result will be a less 

 disposition to reach conclusions upon imperfect grounds. So, 

 also, there will be a less inclination to misapply evidence; for, 

 several constructions being definitely in mind, the indices of the 

 one motive are less liable to be mistaken for the indices of an- 

 other. 



The total outcome is greater care in ascertaining the facts, 

 and greater discrimination and caution in drawing conclusions. 

 I am confident, therefore, that the general application of this 

 "method to the affairs of social and civic life would go far to 

 remove those misunderstandings, misjudgments, and misrepre- 

 sentations which constitute so pervasive an evil in our social 

 and our political atmospheres, the source of immeasurable 

 suffering to the best and most sensitive souls. The misobser- 

 vations, the misstatements, the misinterpretations, of life may 

 ■cause less gross suffering than some other evils; but they, 

 being more universal and more subtle, pain. The remedy lies, 

 indeed, partly in charity, but more largely in correct intellectual 

 habits, in a predominant, ever-present disposition to see things 

 as they are, and to judge them in the full light of an unbiased 

 weighing of evidence applied to all possible constructions, accom- 

 panied by a withholding of judgment when the evidence is 

 insufficient to justify conclusions. 



I believe that one of the greatest moral reforms that lies 

 immediately before us consists in the general introduction into 

 social and civic life of that habit of mental procedure which 

 is known in investigation as the method of multiple working 

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