COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 



Copernican astronomy and refused to profit by 

 the physical discoveries of Gilbert. 



But the allusion to the Logic of Science may 

 here serve to remind us that, before we can thor- 

 oughly understand Comte's general conception 

 of philosophy, there is another point of view 

 from which his system of the sciences must be 

 criticised ; a point of view too little dwelt upon 

 by Mr. Spencer, since by the due consideration 

 of it we shall arrive at the deepest of the dif- 

 ferences between the Comtean organization of 

 the sciences and the Spencerian organization 

 which is here adopted. In order fairly to bring 

 out this point, let us devote a chapter to con- 

 sidering the masterly enumeration of scientific 

 methods, and the survey of the resources which 

 the mind has at its disposal for the investigation 

 of phenomena, which Comte has made a part 

 of his general philosophy of the sciences ; with- 

 holding, until the sequel, the application which 

 is to be made of the discussion. 



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