...Board of South Africa and the Dutch Reformed Church, for research work on the Poor White Question. phenomena, every phase of social life, every stage...consists alone in its method, not in its material. It is not the facts themselves which make science, but the method by which they are all dealt with."*...

...the possibility of extending it to other subjects. In his Grammar of Science, Pearson asserted that "the unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material'"*; and he used this distinction to reinforce the claim for a scientific approach to social problems. There...

...science could be every bit as "scientific" as natural science. "The field of science is unlimited . . . every group of natural phenomena, every phase of social...past or present development is material for science." This was true, he argued, because "The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its...

...Progren and Parentage 1912, University of London, University College Eugenics Laboratory, 2nd edn 34 The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. The Grammar of Science 1911 (London: A fe C Black) Benjamin Peirce 1809-1880 35 Mathematics is the science...

...progressivist view of science. Pearson emphasized the method of scientific inquiry rather than its content. "The field of science is unlimited; its material is...unity of all science consists alone in its method, not its material." He saw science as a form of mental and moral discipline. He believed that "inculcating...

...state and organize their findings intelligently. "The field of science is unlimited," notes the author; "its material is endless, every group of natural phenomena,...facts of any kind whatever, who sees their mutual relations and describes their consequences, is applying the scientific method and is a man of science."...

...results of research but to these rules alone. They quote approvingly from a nineteenth-century paean, "The field of science is unlimited; its material is...all science consists alone in its method, not in its material."104 Science figures here as a universal tool that can be brought to bear on any material....

...here applied to forensic circumstances. Karl Pearson was both perceptive and correct when he said that 'the unity of all science consists alone in its method. not in its material'. Science is a way of understanding and influencing the world in which we live. In this view it is not...

...of science maintain that its claim to special status is based on it method. As Karl Pearson wrote: "The field of science is unlimited; its material is...unity of all science consists alone in its method, not its material."132 Through adherence to specific rules of inference, fact can be distinguished from...

...claims to objectivity was method. As Karl Pearson wrote in his widely read Grammar of Science (1895), "The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material."119 That is, science is objective (and powerful) because of the procedures scientists employ...