Hismethodin’moralscience’followsthelinesnowlaiddown。Allinference，ashehasurged，consistsof’inductions’
and’theinterpretationofinductions。’112*Deductionistheapplicationtonewcasesofthelawsobservedinpreviouscases。
Asourknowledgeofsuchlawsmultiplies，sciencetendstobecomemoredeductive。Butthedeductionisstillaninduction；andthetrueantithesisisnotbetweendeductiveandinductivebutbetween’deductiveandexperimental。’113*Deductivereasoning，thatis，simplyappliesapreviousinduction；butreasoningbecomes’experimental’whenwehavetointerrogatenatureforafreshrule。Thishasanimportantbearinguponthenextstep。
Socialphenomenaofallkindsaresocomplexthatwecannotapplyhisfourmethods。Theybelongtotheregioninhisphraseology
ofthe’intermixtureoflaws’and’pluralityofcauses’；114*