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

§ 1. Characters of this mode of thinking 476 2. Examples of the Geometrical Method 478 3. The interest-philosophy of the Bentham school 479