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Though by some I am characterised as an _a priori_ thinker, it will be manifest to any one who does not set out with an _a priori_ conception of me, that my beliefs, when not suggested _a posteriori_, are habitually verified _a posteriori_. My first book, _Social Statics_, shows this in common with my later books. I have sometimes been half-amused, half-irritated, by one who speaks of me as typically deductive, and whose own conclusions, nevertheless, are not supported by facts anything like so numerous as those brought in support of mine. But we meet with men who are such fanatical adherents of the inductive method, that immediately an induction, otherwise well established, is shown to admit of deductive establishment, they lose faith in it