8 CLASSIFICATION OP THE SCIENCES. 



defining these several orders and genera of Sciences. 

 Table II. will sufficiently explain their relations. 



We come now to the third great group. We have 

 done with the Sciences which are concerned only with 

 the blank forms of relations under which Being is 

 manifested to us. We have left behind the Sciences 

 which, dealing with Being under its universal mode, 

 and its several non-universal modes regarded as inde 

 pendent, treats the terms of its relations as simple and 

 homogeneous, which they never are in Nature. There 

 remain the Sciences which, taking these modes of 

 Being as they are connected with one another, have for 

 the terms of their relations, those heterogeneous combi 

 nations of forces that constitute actual phenomena. 

 The subject-matter of these Concrete-Sciences is the 

 real, as contrasted with the wholly or partially ideal. 

 It is their aim, not to separate and generalize apart 

 the components of all phenomena ; but to explain each 

 phenomenon as a product of these components. Their 

 relations are not, like those of the simplest Abstract- 

 Concrete Sciences, relations between one antecedent 

 and one consequent, nor are they, like those of the 

 more involved Abstract-Concrete Sciences, relations 

 between some few antecedents cut off in imagination 

 from all others, and some few consequents similarly 

 cut off; but they are relations each of which has for 

 its terms a complete plexus of antecedents and a com 

 plete plexus of consequents. This is manifest in the 



