...simple phenomena." Does it not indeed follow from the familiarly admitted fact, that mental advance is from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular...in reducing all orders of phenomena to some single law — say of atomic action, as M. Comte suggests — must uot that law answer to his test of being...

...simple phenomena." Does it not indeed follow from the familiarly admitted fact, that mental advance is from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular...that the universal and therefore most simple truths arc the last to be discovered ? Is not the government of the solar system by a force varying inversely...

...fact is, that, from precisely this position, multitudes impose upon themselves and others by arguing from the concrete to the abstract, — from the particular to the general ; and hence they say, with an air of triumph, here is another demonstration of the utter falseness...

...eye, not points, and lines, and angles; and here, as elsewhere, the method of proceeding should be from the concrete to the abstract — from the particular to the general. When pupils are prepared to understand Geometrical Demonstrations, they should be supplied with a suitable...

...Teaching must advance from the sensuous to the supersensuous — from the physical to the metaphysical — from the concrete to the abstract — from the particular to the general. are taught and recited in geography, prematurely. While " active voice," " passive voice," " relation...

...simple phenomena." Does it not indeed follow from the familiarly admitted fact, that mental advance is from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular...that the universal and therefore most simple truths arc the last to be discovered ? Is not the government of the solar system by a force varying inversely...

...simple phenomena," Docs it not indeed follow from the familiarly admitted fact, that mental advance is from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular...in reducing all orders of phenomena to some single law — say of atomic action, as M. Comte suggests — must not that law answer to his test of being...

...be truly an educator, must initiate into all knowledge also inductively. The universal canons are: "From the Concrete to the Abstract," "From the Particular to the General. " But this having been done, what then ? The intelligence, by moving in accordance with its laws, is...

...there is a sacred relationship. But, in the second place, the universal law of religious development is from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular to the general, through the temporal to the eternal. As yet, there has never been a natural religion, or a universal...

...They know nothing of that general principle of education "to proceed from the known to the unknown, from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular to the general," nor of that first mental power employed by the child which acquires knowledge through the senses, and...