CHAPTER VIII 



ORGANIZATION OF THE 

 SCIENCES 1 



THE results obtained in the course of 

 the preceding inquiry have added depth 

 and precision to our conception of the 

 Scope of Philosophy. In coming to look upon 

 all phenomena as manifestations of a Power un- 

 knowable in itself, yet knowable in the order of 

 its phenomenal manifestations, we have virtually 

 come to declare that the true business of philo- 

 sophy is the determination of the, order of the 

 phenomena in which this omnipresent Power is 

 manifested. And thus we arrive by another road 

 at the very same definition of Philosophy which 

 was previously given ; and we see that the pro- 

 gress of deanthropomorphization, while leaving 

 the religious attitude of philosophy entirely un- 

 changed, has at the same time precisely limited 

 its scope in making it the Synthesis of the gen- 

 eral truths of science into a system of universal 

 truth. We have next to inquire, as preliminary 

 to the construction of such a Synthesis, into the 

 manner in which the different orders of scien- 



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