Excerpt from Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 6: 1880-81 I need hardly remind you, in the outset, that the method of the Scottish school of science has ever been painstaking observation in order to legitimate induction, and induction in order to the discovery of law. In a word, things have been valued by us chiefly for the thoughts that underlie them. 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.