612 LOGIC OF THE MORAL SCIENCES. 



Philosophy of History, shall be directed and controlled 

 by those views of the nature of sociological evidence 

 which I have attempted to state, but which hitherto 

 are to my knowledge exemplified nowhere but in 

 the writings of M. Comte; they cannot fail to give 

 birth to a sociological system widely removed from 

 the vague and conjectural character of all former 

 attempts, and worthy to take its place, at last, among 

 established sciences. When this time shall come, no 

 important branch of human affairs will be any longer 

 abandoned to empiricism and unscientific surmise: 

 the circle of human knowledge will be complete, and 

 it can only thereafter receive further enlargement by 

 perpetual expansion from within. 



