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The Science of Self-Control
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through rigid processes of analysis, and so finds out what is useless and what of value; and he rejects the former and retains the latter.
3. Classification. Having accumulated and verified a mass of facts by numberless observations and experiments, he commences to classify those facts, to arrange them in orderly groups with the object of discovering some underlying law, some hidden and unifying principle, which governs, regulates, and binds together these facts.
4. Deduction. Thus he passes on to the fourth step of deduction. From the facts and results which are before him, he discovers certain invariable modes of action, and thus reveals the hidden laws of things.
5. Knowledge. Having proven and established certain laws, it may be said
