22 A SCIENCE OF THE UNIVERSE. 



27. It has not, perhaps, been clearly seen, that, to 

 classify the Sciences is to classify the Domains of 

 Universal Being to which the Sciences relate, and 

 hence to classify the Universe, or, at all events, that 

 portion of it which is systematically known to us ; 

 and that a true and exhaustive classification of the 

 Sciences would be no less than, in a sense at least, a 

 Science of the Universe itself. The difficulty of the 

 undertaking is, therefore, such, that we need not be 

 surprised that it should have achieved no more than 

 a partial success. It is true, however, that a proper 

 Science of the Universe is still far more than a mere 

 classification of the Sciences, since its Principles must 

 enter into the body of each of the Special Sciences 

 and classify also all the details and particulars with- 

 in them all. 



28. It results, from what has been previously 

 shown, that just as truly as there may be, and as 

 there are, Sciences of various special parts or Do- 

 mains of the Universe, so there may be and indeed 

 should be wrought out and systematically exhibited, 

 a Science of the Universe itself, as the One, Grand, 

 All-inclusive Domain. Such a Science ivould then le 

 rightly denominated UNIVERSOLOGY. Our knowledge 

 of the parts of a subject can only be fragmentary 

 and very imperfect so long as we have not some sys- 

 tematic knowledge of the whole subject, and, thereby, 

 of the relation of the parts to each other and to the 

 grand whole. 



29. To the possibility of the existence of an actual 

 and valid Science of the Universe several objections 



