The Method of Darwin: a Study in Scientific Method

Abstract

THIS excellent and most useful little work arose, as its author states in the preface, “from the belief that the direct study of scientific method, as it is illustrated by the works of the accepted masters, is worthy of far more careful attention than is usually accorded to it.” The method of Darwin was chosen for the author's purpose (pp. 23, 24) because of the importance of scientific method as a study, because “logicians and scientific philosophers draw their illustrations of scientific method almost exclusively from the physical sciences” which, although “fascinating on account of their brilliancy and their approach towards mathematical certainty,” are less adapted than the biological sciences “to furnish models for the average student, because in the nature of their logical difficulties they approach more nearly to the experiences of common life,” lastly because

The Method of Darwin: a Study in Scientific Method.

By Frank Cramer. (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1896.)