This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
I must begin, not with hypothesis, but with specific instances, no matter how minute.
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
General rules are dangerous of application in particular instances.
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
I think people have problems sometimes when things are too general. In fact, they are not really general at all.
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.
Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
