Chapter Vii. _of the Chemical, or Experimental, Method in the

Social Science._

§ 1. Characters of the mode of thinking which deduces political doctrines from specific experience 466

2. In the Social Science experiments are impossible 468

3. --the Method of Difference inapplicable 469

4. --and the Methods of Agreement, and of Concomitant Variations, inconclusive 471

5. The Method of Residues also inconclusive, and presupposes Deduction 472