28 A THIRD OBJECTION. 



or finality of Science in their several Spheres, but 

 the births of those Sciences or Branches of Knowl- 

 edge. The discovery of Universology is, in like 

 manner, the birth of Science, itself, considered as a con- 

 stituted and living whole. The Special Sciences, as 

 heretofore studied and developed, have been the 

 Limbs and Members of the unformed or as yet un- 

 born infant, not therefore mutually recognizing each 

 other as corresponding parts of a larger Organisnms. 



39. It may be again objected, that, admitting the 

 possibility of the Universal Science, and that a 

 shorter method may exist for its discovery than that 

 of compassing all possible details, yet, that, at least, 

 it must be necessary to be familiar with the known 

 details of all the existing Sciences, in order either to 

 discover the Unitary Science, or to be competent to 

 comprehend it and to judge of it when discovered. 



40. This is still only another form of the same 

 objection. The supposed immense accumulation of 

 the details of Observational Knowledge is not indis- 

 pensable either to the learner or teacher of the new 

 Science, and only in a modified sense even to the 

 discoverer of it. Universology is an Independent 

 Science, which stands upon its own basis, and no 

 more needs an extended acquaintance with the par- 

 ticulars of other Sciences, except for the greater 

 richness of suggestion and illustration, than Geom- 

 etry or Chemistry. The Special Sciences, with all 

 their details, collectively form, indeed, the Infinite 

 Domain within which Universology will find per- 

 petually new applications ; but the Elements of the 



