. Factory and industrial management. phenomena of which weare altogether ignorant, since our knowl-edge is limited to those things which arecapable of acting upon our senses, eitherdirectly or indirectly. The work ^vhich has thus far been donein this interesting field is an excellent ex-ample of modern methods of scientific in-vestigation. When certain unknown phe-nomena are to be investigated various meth-ods may be followed. Very broad and gen-eral hypotheses may be made, and then grad-ually narrowed in accordance with the resultsof experiment. This methodical advance isthe most reliable, bu
. Factory and industrial management. phenomena of which weare altogether ignorant, since our knowl-edge is limited to those things which arecapable of acting upon our senses, eitherdirectly or indirectly. The work ^vhich has thus far been donein this interesting field is an excellent ex-ample of modern methods of scientific in-vestigation. When certain unknown phe-nomena are to be investigated various meth-ods may be followed. Very broad and gen-eral hypotheses may be made, and then grad-ually narrowed in accordance with the resultsof experiment. This methodical advance isthe most reliable, but it is also the the contrary, one may make much bolderhypotheses, in which the mechanism of thephenomena may be assumed, and then farmore definite experiments may be under-taken in order to test the correctness otthe assumptions. At the same time one isapt to be led into error by the very necessityof making a working hypothesis, and indeedit must be expected that such a method mustconsist of a mixture of truth and ReviewoftheAmerican Press
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