ABSTRACT
The spectacle of the progress of the natural sciences and of mathematics has once again brought the problem of method to the very forefront of discussion. Science has as firmly put its stamp upon the intellectual culture and the practical organisation of people's time, as ever had theology upon the civilisation of the Middle Ages. In peace and in war people's lives rest upon the use of manifold appliances which science has put at our disposal. On both grounds science is claiming, and obtaining, an ever larger place in modern education, at-the expense of literary and historical subjects. Its advocates, not without reason, maintain that the scientific temper of mind and the scientific attitude towards the world have, not merely a utilitarian, but above all a profound spiritual value. The demand for scientific method has for its watchword 'experiment', and finds its most plausible advocacy through the 'instrumentalism' of Professor John Dewey.
