and their Classification. 285 



For the first subdivision, there exists no name ; the term 

 ideology which, according to Webster's Dictionary, has 

 been used to denote "1. A treatise on ideas, or the doctrine 

 of ideas, or the operations of the understanding. — Jefferson^ 

 IV, 297; 2. The science of mind. — Stewart:'' is, of 

 course, inapplicable if we confine the termination "oloo'y" 

 to the concrete sciences ; so we might coin the word "ideics." 

 For the second subdivision we might use the term "ethics," 

 if we choose to enlarge its meaning ; ordinarily it is held to 

 relate only to the laws of morality, etymologically it refers 

 to only manners. For the third subdivision we might use 

 the term "esthetics," although it has hitherto been employed 

 only for the science of but one quality, viz: the beautiful. 



Physology is aspectually divided into physogeny and phy- 

 sography on the one hand, and into hylology, dynamoloi>y 

 and morphology on the other. By the first kind of division 

 I refer to («) the development of the objects of nature in 

 time, or their tempic, i.e. motic or sequential existence, and 

 (,?) their spacic or static existence, or the state of their exis- 

 tence at a definite time, ^. e. the present. The develop- 

 mental or genetic knowledge of any branch gives answer to 

 the questions : "How came you so ?" "How or what were you 

 before?" The existential or. existing, to the question : "How 

 or what are you?" The former science has the distino-uishiu"" 

 sufiix "ogeny," the latter "ography," which may be expressed 

 by saying that every "ology" has its "ogeny" and "ogi-aphy." 

 The second kind of aspectual division of physoloijy marks 

 the distinctions which may be made by looking at nature in 

 its manifestations of either matter, force or form. Matter 

 and force appear to be unlimited in space and time, eternal 

 and infinite ; form is unceasingly changing. Force is the 

 dynamical aspect of matter, and matter the statical aspect 

 of force ; the two are inseparable and presuppose each other ; 

 form results from the reaction upon each other, or the inter- 

 action, of matter and force, it therefoi-e presupposes the two 

 latter. Hence, therefore, our perception of neither of them 



