"It draws its conclusions from the knowledge of known limitations, whose affirmation serves as a basis for the argument which determines deduction in a most exact manner.
"Experience itself depends on memory, which permits us to recall facts and to draw our conclusions from them, on which facts reasoning is based."
The Shogun does not fail to draw our attention to the difference between experience and experimentation.
"This last," said he, "only serves to incite the manifestation of the first.
"It consists of determining the production of a phenomenon whose existence will aid us in establishing the underlying principles of an observation which interprets the event.
"That is what is called experience.
"Comparison is a mental operation which permits us to bring things that we desire to understand to a certain point.
"It is comparison which has divided time according to periods, which the moon follows during its entire length.
"It is by comparing their different aspects and by calculating the duration of their transformations, that men have been able to divide time as they do in all the countries of the world.
"The science of numbers is also born of comparison, which has been established between the quantities that they represent.