VI CONTENTS. 



PART II. 



OF THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH PHYSICAL SCIENCE RELIES FOR 

 ITS SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION, AND THE RULES BY WHICH A 

 SYSTEMATIC EXAMINATION OP NATURE SHOULD BE CONDUCTKD, 

 WITH ILLUSTRATIONS OP THEIR INFLUENCE AS EXEMPLIFIED 

 IN THE HISTORY OF ITS PROGRESS. 



CHAP. 1. 



Of Experience as the Source of our Knowledge. Of the Dis- 

 missal of Prejudices. Of the Evidence of our Senses. 



Page 75 



CHAP. II. 

 Of the Analysis of Phenomena. 85 



CHAP. III. 



Of the State of Physical Science in General, previous to the 

 Age of Galileo and Bacon. - - .104 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the Observation of Facts and the Collection of Instances. 



118 



CHAP. V. 



Of the Classification of Natural Objects and Phenomena, and 

 of Nomenclature. - - - 135 



CHAP. VI. 



Of the First Stage of Induction. The Discovery of Proxi- 

 mate Causes, and Laws of the lowest Degree of Generality, 

 and their Verification. ... 144 



CHAP. VII. 



Of the higher Degrees of Inductive Generalization, and of the 

 Formation and Verification of Theories. - 190 



