CHAPTER VIII 



OEGANIZATION OF THE SCIENCES. 



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 unknowable in itself, yet know- 

 able in the order of its phenomenal manifestations, we have 

 virtually come to declare that the true business of philosophy 

 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 progress of 

 deanthropomorphization, while leaving the religious attitude 

 of philosophy entirely unchanged, has at the same time pre- 

 cisely limited its scope in making it the Synthesis of the 

 general 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 scientific truths are to be grouped for the purposes 

 of our philosophic construction. In short, we are brought 

 face to face with the problem which also occupied Comte 

 next in order after the question of deanthropomorphization : 

 we have to deal with the classification of the sciences. 

 And, as in the preceding chapter, we shall endeavour, while 



