Excerpt from Education and the Larger Life In the conduct of the individual and social life, it is a matter of the deepest concern to enlarge experience; to recognize the common element in human events; to gather these elements into a dis tinct philosophy, and finally to see to it that thephilosophy flowers into performance. And this process is the process of all scientific progress. We have the students and observers and investi gators, the world over, gathering together the un disputed news of the universe. We have the gen eralizers, the Darwins and Spencers and Maxwells and Kelvins, disentangling the abstract truth from the special fact. And then finally we have the prophets, the far-seeing people, who turn the gen eral truth back again into a novel fact. When these prophets deal with material laws, they are inventors when they deal with spiritual laws, they are seers. It is the time-honored process of in duction, followed by deduction, and all branches of human inquiry must pass through both stages be fore they can rank as sciences. Auguste Comte affirmed the test of science to be the power of prediction. This presupposes an essential order and reasonableness in the universe. Were human experience not consistent, we should be in a sorry plight. In a world of caprice, in a world devoid of this saving uniformity, we should not even have sanity, much less civilization. The experience of to-day would conflict with and contradict the ex perience of yesterday. The times would be most surely out of joint and the world-distemper prove complete. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.