We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.