Synthetic method is that which begins with the parts, and leads onward to the knowledge of the whole : it begins with the most simple principles and general truths, and proceeds by degrees to that which is drawn from them, or compounded of them ; and therefore it is called the method of composition.

— Isaac Watts Austin Allibone ed. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay (1903)

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