I have to admit,
the person who wrote "Recommendations for New Investigators" was quite an interesting fellow.
After listing various mysterious incidents and their resolution processes, his main advice concerned the approach to solving problems, rather than standardized procedures.
The author even criticized the content of "Basic Mystical Knowledge."
Regarding this widely circulated primer on the mystical side, he said the following:
"I don't know whether Statte's theory is flawed or not."
"But judging from my over thirty years of front-line intuition, he's probably wrong."
"When I was young, people still believed that bleeding could cure all the diseases in the world, not to mention that Statte is an antique from a thousand years ago."
"So I suggest that investigators shouldn't believe him."
Just from seeing this "Recommendations for New Investigators," Ronald could get a sense of this guy's personality to some extent.