548 LOGIC OF THE MORAL SCIENCES. 



factorily to themselves and to a more or less numerous 

 body of admirers, know nothing whatever of the 



- methods of physical investigation beyond a few pre- 

 cepts which they continue to parrot after Bacon, 



being entirely unaware that Bacon's conception of 

 scientific inquiry has done its work, and that science 

 has now advanced into a higher stage; there are pro- 

 bably many to whom such remarks as the foregoing 

 may still be useful. ~In an age in which chemistry 

 itself, when attempting to deal with the more complex 

 chemical sequences, those of the animal or even the 

 vegetable organism, has found it necessary to become, 

 and has succeeded in becoming, a Deductive Science 

 it is not to be apprehended that any person of scientific 

 habits, who has kept pace with the general progress 

 of the knowledge of nature, can be in 'danger of apply- 

 ing the methods of elementary chemistry to explore 

 the sequences of .the most complex order of pheno- 

 mena in existence. 



