Excerpt from The Working Principles of Rhetoric: Examined in Their Literary Relations and Illustrated With Examples

A laboratory method, of whatever sort, is not absolutely empirical. Its essence is indeed observation, discovery, experiment, but in its outfit must also be included a labora tory manual, to direct and determine its lines of work. Special monographs and records of research have their place, but they do not take the place of this. There is needed, to cover the whole field, some treatise which, presenting the basal principles on a uniform scale and from one point of view.

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