I bring forward those generalisations and definitions because they
commend themselves to my diacritical judgment. In other words, I set
them forth as results which have been reached after reiterated efforts
to call up to mind the totality of my experience, and to de-tect the
factor which is common to all the individual experiences.

When for instance I propose a definition, I have endeavoured to call
to mind all the different uses of the word with which I am
familiar--eliminating, of course, all the obviously incorrect uses.

And when I venture to attempt a generalisation about woman, I
endeavour to recall to mind without distinction all the different
women I have encountered, and to extricate from my impressions what
was common to all,--omitting from consideration (except only when I am
dealing specifically with these) all plainly abnormal women.

Having by this procedure arrived at a generalisation--which may of
course be correct or incorrect--I submit it to my reader, and ask from
him that he should, after going through the same mental operations as
myself, review my judgment, and pronounce his verdict.

If it should then so happen that the reader comes, in the case of any
generalisation, to the same verdict as that which I have reached, that
particular generalisation will, I submit, now go forward not as a
datum of my individual experience, but as the intellectual resultant
of two separate and distinct experiences. It will thereby be immensely
fortified.

If, on the other hand, the reader comes to the conclusion that a
particular generalisation is out of conformity with his experience,