CHAPTER IX. 



SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF THE ABSTRACT AND THE 



CONCRETE. 



161. After the preceding Grand Distributions of 

 Universal Being (into the Unlimited and The Limi- 

 tary, The General and The Special, etc.), none re- 

 mains of more intrinsic importance than that already 

 alluded to, and partially employed as a basis of 

 Classification, into THE ABSTRACT and THE CONCRETE 

 (94, 139.) Herbert Spencer, not seizing on the more 

 subtle Plnlosoplioid bases of distribution, to which 

 hardly anything else than the Analysis of the Alpha- 

 bet could have conducted us, commences, indeed, his 

 Classification of the Sciences, at this point, making, 

 his first Threefold Division into, 1. THE ABSTRACT, 

 2. THE CONCRETE, and 3. THE ABSTRACT-CONCRETE, 

 (or Mixed). 1 By adopting the termination -o-logy, wo 

 may conveniently convert these designations into 

 Abstradology, Concrdolocjy and Abstract-Concretology 



1 " The Classification of the Sciences, to which are added reasons 

 for dissenting from the Philosophy of M. Comte," by Herbert 

 Spencer a Pamphlet. 



