BIOLOGY AMONG THE SCIENCES 



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(2) Forms viewed as dead, or 

 living — i.e. as to Energy, 

 as 



(3) Forms of Life in Time 



So now, superposing these three diagrams, we have exactly that of 

 our eight sub-sciences: 



And when we insert the above terms in their respective places, we 

 have defined each and all of our eight sub-sciences as follows: 



APPLICATION TO OTHER MAIN SCIENCES. —Note next 

 that this eightfold scheme, first empirically developed, but here 

 rationalised and unified in terms of space, energy, and time, cannot 

 but apply, and that clearly, to our studies of the physical world 

 on one side and of social life on the other. The astronomer, like the 

 taxonomist, groups our individual planet and its satellite with 

 others into the solar system, places our sun among the stars, and 

 not merely by help of the constellations, as of old, but begins to 



