to proceed from the easy to the difficult易より難へ進むいよりなんへすすむproceed from fact to theory: 事実{じじつ}から理論{りろん}へ進むproceed from generalities into particulars: 総論から各論に入るproceed the opposite direction from: ~と逆方向{ぎゃく ほうこう}に進む