The tendency of unscientific inquirers is to rely too much on number, without analyzing the instances; without looking closely enough into their nature to ascertain what circumstances are or are not eliminated by means of them.
We may add to this, that no one but a person competently skilled in those laws is capable of preparing the materials for historical generalization, by analyzing the facts of history, or even by observing the social phenomena of his own time.
Accordingly, scientific investigation among the Greek schools of speculation and their followers in the Middle Ages, was little more than a mere sifting and analyzing of the notions attached to common language.
This will be seen by analyzingthe conditions of some one familiar phenomenon.
If necessary I can prove it later, however, by analyzingthe trace of blood.
Logic, they found, is best suited to analyzing and categorizing--functions today increasingly delegated to the computer.
Whenever a student startsanalyzing koans intellectually, comparing one against another, trying to understand rationally how they affect his nonrational intelligence, he misses the whole point.
In analyzing this solid matter, Ure found by treating it with nitric acid the yielding was: White fibrous matter (cellulose).
There are various other chemical experiments with which children may amuse themselves; they may be employed in analyzing marle, or clays; they may be provided with materials for making ink or soap.
Many persons have a vague idea of the great value of memory, and, without analyzing their opinion, they resolve to cultivate the memories of their children as much, and as soon, as possible.
In fact, it is just its success in analyzing and collecting facts which throw light upon human problems that in the end justifies the theories of science.
How does Simons use the term "social forces" in analyzing the course of events in American history?
Social Organization Until recently there has been more interest manifested in elaborating theories of the stages in the evolution of society than in analyzing the structure of different types of societies.
This fact can be established directly by analyzingthe most cruel laughter.
Turning from this criticism to note without analyzing heterogeneous crowds, let us then proceed to determine the principal characteristics of the three large types of homogeneous crowds, the classes, the castes, the sects.
I spent my long and lonesome leisure in organizing my knowledge, analyzing my experiences, and building up from them a grand philosophy of mind and matter.
Let us begin then by examining the true condition of things, by analyzing the forces which exist on either side.
Women understand better than we do the art of analyzing the two human feelings, which alternately form their weapons of attack, or the weapons of which they are victims.
Analyzing these several grounds of defence, a distinction should be made at the start between three varieties of basing point.
Analyzing the main question two propositions are certain.
It often happened that after the pleasurable effort of analyzing a poem with lines alternating in this way, the pupils would choose as "recreation" the study of lines of even-numbered syllables.
Illustration: Analyzing the beat of a measure while walking on a line.
The child divides these sentences into clauses, analyzing each separately.
It is very interesting, also, not to work out on the frame the individual products in the sequence indicated in analyzing the factors, but to work them out by chance.
If a real artist should take up the task of analyzing for children the language of music, bringing them to enjoy it phrase by phrase and under different timbres (voice, strings, etc.
So instead of giving them all an answer outright, she decided to spend a few days analyzing what she'd managed to piece together so far.
He worked methodically, carefully analyzing the program at every step, double-checking the codes, poring over his verification printouts for obscure glitches.
He is a close observer, continually analyzing his own nature and that of others, letting fall his little drops of acid irony on all who come near him, to make them show what they are made of.
Men of his type are forever analyzing their own emotions and motives.
VII She had sought to be definite in analyzing the surface ugliness of the Gopher Prairies.
Carrie thinks she's such a whale at analyzing folks.
I'm a tedious old fool analyzing the obvious, while you're the spirit of rebellion.
With restrained amusement he was analyzing the noisy Mr. Zitterel.
Section: Germans in Civil War, paragraph starting: Kaufmann, in analyzing these.
Kaufmann, in analyzing these figures, shows that the number was understated as regards the Germans and overstated as regards the Canadians.
Was he not missing life by analyzing everything, or was he giving weight and meaning to fleeting experience by the anchor of his ruminations?
The pleasure of intellectual exercise in demonstrating or analyzing a geometrical problem, or solving an algebraic equation, seemed to be your only object.
He explains one phenomenon by another; he classifies and arranges the given material without analyzing it; he keeps constantly in touch with the popular consciousness.
It is then a question of analyzing the circumstances and of weighing the causes whose manifestation could determine a disparity in the results.
In analyzing the workings of the competitive system, we have seen that its methods are those of war.
It is amusing in analyzing prejudices to see on what slender foundations they rest," and the ladies around me were so completely cornered that no one attempted an answer.
He begins by analyzing himself carefully and discovers in himself many good feelings and honest desires, but he feels that he lacks clear and harmonious thought, a thing which keeps all the manifestations of life in equilibrium.
