BOOK VI. · CHAPTER XXXI. · REFLECTIONS ON THE RESULTS AND LIMITS OF SCIENTIFIC METHOD.

From The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method by William Stanley Jevons.

1. Reflections on the Results and Limits of Scientific Method 735

2. The Meaning of Natural Law 737

3. Infiniteness of the Universe 738

4. The Indeterminate Problem of Creation 740

5. Hierarchy of Natural Laws 742

6. The Ambiguous Expression--“Uniformity of Nature” 745

7. Possible States of the Universe 749

8. Speculations on the Reconcentration of Energy 751

9. The Divergent Scope for New Discovery 752

10. Infinite Incompleteness of the Mathematical Sciences 754

11. The Reign of Law in Mental and Social Phenomena 759

12. The Theory of Evolution 761

13. Possibility of Divine Interference 765

14. Conclusion 766

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