Excerpt from American Religion Ome mental method must exist to control all the applications Of Thought in morals and religion. Of course it is trite to say there must be method everywhere. The Oneida Community ran to waste year after year for want of method in its trade and farming, till a French Canadian came there with a mouse-trap Of his invention, and caught prosperity. N O trap had ever before so nicely corresponded to the cunning of surplus mice. Method is simply an adap tation to the facts. The sculptor discovers what form Of tool will hollow a knee-joint, and he saves time for the face. Philosophers and theologians grow stifi' in that joint because they refuse to walk in Nature's way. But the great discoveries of Newton and Kepler had nothing mysterious: they were the gestures Of men without preconceptions to methodize, whose ways were so near to Nature that they kept the rare brains susceptible to organic laws; so that their genius was their health. Method'rules the distinction between the literary man and the Bohemian, the scholar and the Charlatan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.