text:  "From the considerations now adduced the following conclusions seem to be established:--All inference is from particulars to particulars: General propositions are merely registers of such inferences already made and short formulae for making more: The major premiss of a syllogism consequently is a formula of this description; and the conclusion is not an inference drawn _from_ the formula but an inference drawn _according to_ the formula: the real logical antecedent or premisses being _the particular facts from which the general proposition was collected by induction_