Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams.

  • Bruce-Williams, Marshall.
Date:
[1905]
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Credit: Preliminary statement : a synthesis of modern science / by Marshall Bruce Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    0.—Do not be afraid of clianging the termmologii yonr subject i'e(|uires. ^Vt the same time ac(|iiire a thorough acquaintance with the principle that undei'lies this terminology. 4. —Learn to think in colour as much as possible. 5. —Learn to call up into your mind at any time a cind picture, of the pai-ent bureau, in which the principles at work in all ))ureaus, are exhiljited. In this way you will learn (piite naturally and easily to look at your subject as a whole, to see the mutual action and intemction of its various parts and the place which any detail should occupy in any one part. 6. —Nearly all details will be found to lie in those combina- tions of the parts which slowly build the synthesis of the subject as a whole. Where it is not obvious in which de])artment this detail slumld 1)C ])laced, work from the left to the right. In this Avay a detail will only gradually approach the spiritual region or conti'olling centres of the subject. 7. —Thoroughly familiarize yoiu-self with the scheme of the oi'gani.sation of the sciences, using both scientific terms and those 1 use in the l)ureaus. 8. —If you are only dealing with a part of a subject, think out the bureau you recpiire to place yoiu- material in and submit your ideas to the director of Construction.