Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: consideration, faith is assigned to the class certitude. So second sight might be relegated by an investigator to the class hallucination, or Kalmucks to the class Tartars; and another investigator, or the same investigator later, might reach a different generalization, might read the reported facts differently. For even the search for information, without intent to argue, may involve dispute. Any generalization is to some extent an interpretation; and concerning the interpretation of facts there is often difference of opinion. But though a generalization may not be insisted on without being proved, it may always be suggested. The suggestion will be acceptable according to the number of facts it seems to cover and the care with which it seems to consider the differentia. Moreover generalization, to writer and reader alike, gives research its main value. The pleasure and profit, the education, consist not in seeing a number of facts, but in seeing through them, in discerning their relations. Composition is not mere digest; it is interpretation. A student's interpretation is not final. It is neither meant to be nor expected to be. It is.valuable largely in proportion as it opens the subject to further thought. The widening of knowledge goes on largely by the progressive correction and extension of our definitions. Many definitions are approximate and temporary; but we cannot get on without them. They are necessary alike for our own thought and for our communication. They measure our progress, and promote the progress of those whom we address, in the perennial quest. III. PRESENTING INFORMATION Certain kinds of information are best presented in classified notes, such as statistical charts or tabular views. What can be grasped best in such analytical form will gain nothing by ...