I mean in a general way," answered Claudius, smiling.
"Is generalisation everything ?" asked Mr.Bellingham sharply, still looking at the young man.

"Is experience to be dismissed as empiricism, with a sneer, because the wider rule is lacking ?" "No.

But so long as only a few occupy themselves in reducing empiric knowledge to a scientific shape they will not succeed, at least in this department.

To begin with, they have not enough experience among them to make rules from." "But they contribute.

One man will come who will find the rule.