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philosophy of method does not come witbin the scope of the 

 present work. The object of the preceding sketch is to 

 enable the reader to realize the significance of Comte's omis- 

 sion of Logic from the scheme of the sciences. That omis- 

 sion, as we may now see, was due to the fact that Comte 

 merged Philosophy in Logic. Or, in other words, from his 

 point of view, Philosophy is not a Synthesis, but an Organon. 

 Nowhere in that portion of the " Philosophie Positive " which 

 treats of the organization of the sciences, do we catch any 

 glimpse of that Cosmic conception of the scope of philosophy 

 which was set forth and illustrated in the second chapter of 

 these Prolegomena. For according to that conception, we 

 have seen that philosophy is an all-comprehensive Synthesis 

 of the doctrines and methods of science ; a coherent body 

 of theorems concerning the Cosmos, and concerning Man in 

 his relations to the Cosmos of which he is part. Now, 

 though Comte enriched mankind with a new conception of 

 the aim, the methods, and the spirit of philosophy, he never 

 even attempted to construct any such coherent body of 

 theorems. He constructed a classification of the sciences 

 and a general theory of scientific methods ; but he did not 

 extract from each science that quota of general doctrines 

 which it might be made to contribute toward a universal 

 doctrine, and then proceed to fuse these general doctrines 

 into such a universal doctrine. From first to last, so far as 

 the integration of science is concerned, his work was logical 

 rather than philosophical. And here we shall do well to 

 note an apparent confusion between these two points of view, 

 which occurs in Mr. Mill's essay on Comte. " The philosophy 

 of science," says Mr. Mill, " consists of two principal parts ; 

 the methods of investigation, and the requisites of proof. 

 The one points out the roads by which the human intellect 

 arrives at conclusions ; the other, the mode of testing their 

 evidence. The former, if complete, would be an Organon 

 of Discovery; the latter, of Proof." Now I call this an 



