We are entitled to have faith in our procedure just so long as it does the work it is designed to do--that is, enables us to predict future experience, and so to control our environment.' And on the Purpose of Inquiry: 'The traditional disputes of philosophers are, for the most part, as unwarranted as they are unfruitful.

The surest way to end them is to establish beyond question what should be the purpose and the method of philosophical inquiry.' (SR.)] [Footnote 1157: An expression of Mollien.] [Footnote 1158: Meneval, I., 210, 213 .-- Roederer, III., 537, 545 (February and March, 1889): Words of Napoleon: "At this moment it was nearly midnight."-- Ibid., IV., 55 (November, 1809).

Read the admirable examination of Roederer by Napoleon on the Kingdom of Naples.

His queries form a vast systematic and concise network, embracing the entire subject, leaving no physical or moral data, no useful circumstance not seized upon .-- Segur, II., 231: M.De Segur, ordered to inspect every part of the coast-line, had sent in his report: "'I have seen your reports,' said the First Consul to me, 'and they are exact.
Nevertheless, you forgot at Osten two cannon out of the four.'-- And he pointed out the place, 'a roadway behind the town.' I went out overwhelmed with astonishment that among thousands of cannon distributed among the mounted batteries or light artillery on the coast, two pieces should not have escaped his recollection."-- "Correspondance," letter to King Joseph, August 6, 1806: "The admirable condition of my armies is due to this, that I give attention to them every day for an hour or two, and, when the monthly reports come in, to the state of my troops and fleets, all forming about twenty large volumes.

I leave every other occupation to read them over in detail, to see what difference there is between one month and another.