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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    All or any of these methods can be used in my bureaus, at that point where the rltaJ order Ijegins to disappear. The original main analysis can, however, never be lost sight of, and facilitates the work of any scheme of classification ultimately employed. The demand of my Imreaus is on the intelligence, rather than on the memory of the user. All schemes of classification are based on some easy guide to the memory. I may say that this charge has lieen only made liy those who have not been to see my scheme in my own environment, but have only heard me explain it in conversation. To convey a whole philosophy, however clear and simple, in a few minutes’ conversation is too much to ask in my opinion. 2.—It is not carried down into sufficient dfitail. The answer here slioidd also ]>e sufficiently olivious. The work is far beyond the power of, not only one man, l)ut a group of men. All the latter can do is to carry it on one stage, lay out the general principles of the work, apply my method as a test of efficiency to particular questions, private businesses and the problems of particular organisations.