&quot;According to the doctrine now stated, the highest, or rather the only 

 proper object of physics, is to ascertain those established conjunctions of suc 

 cessive events, which constitute the order of the universe ; to record the 

 phenomena which it exhibits to our observations, or which it discloses to 

 our experiments; and to refer these phenomena to their general laws.&quot; 

 D. STEWAKT, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, vol. ii. chap. iv. 

 sect. 1. 



