Method

(method.) [Gr. method os, literally, a journey taken in search of anything.] (Log. and Rhet.) The art of disposing ideas in such a manner that they may be easily comprehended in order either to discover the truth, or to demonstrate it to others. M. is e ential to science, and without it busine of any kind will fall into confusion. In studying a science, we generally mean by M. a system of cla ification or arrangement of natural bodies according to their common charac-Methylamine, teristics, as the Linnæan M., & c. The difference between M. and system is this: system is an arrangement founded, throughout all its parts, on some one principle; M. is an arrangement le fixed and determinate, Meton'ic and founded on more general relations. [s. 596]