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deductive, than of inductive habits ; of a mere 

 mathematician or logician, than of one who 

 studies the facts of the natural world and detects 

 their laws. 



The person whose mind is employed in re- 

 ducing to law and order and intelligible cause 

 the complex facts of the material world, is com- 

 pelled to look beyond the present state of his 

 knowledge, and to turn his thoughts to the ex- 

 istence of principles higher than those which he 

 yet possesses. He has seen occasions when facts 

 that at first seemed incoherent and anomalous, 

 were reduced to rule and connexion ; and when 

 limited rules were discovered to be included in 

 some rule of superior generality. He knows 

 that all facts and appearances, all partial laws, 

 however confused and casual they at present 

 seem, must still, in reality, have this same kind 

 of bearing and dependence ; must be bound 

 together by some undiscovered principle of order; 

 must proceed from some cause working by 

 most steady rules ; must be included in some 

 wide and fruitful general truth. He cannot there- 

 fore consider any principles which he has already 

 obtained, as the ultimate and sufficient reason of 

 that which he sees. There must be some higher 

 principle, some ulterior reason. The effort and 

 struggle by which he endeavours to extend his 

 view, makes him feel that there is a region of 

 truth not included in his present physical know- 



