A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Henry MayhewThe deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry MayhewThe costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry Mayhew