The Pulaski Citizen

Method.-The absence of method, which characterizes the uneducated, is occasioned by an habitual submission of the understanding to mere events and images, as such, and independent of any power in the mind to classify or appropriate them. The general accompaniments of time and place are the only relations which persons of this class appear to regard in their statements. As this constitutes their leading feature, the contrary excellence, as distinguishing the well-educated man, must be referred to the contrary habit. Method, therefore, becomes natural to the mind which has been accustomed to contemplate, not things, only, or for their sake, alone, but, chiefly, the relations of things; either their relations to each other, or to the state and apprehension of the hearers. To enumerate and analyze these relations, with the conditions under which, alone, they are discoverable, is to teach the science of method.-Coleridge.