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objects only, number and extension, and all the 

 inductions he wants have been formed and finished 

 ages ago. He is occupied now with nothing but 

 deduction and verification. 



The Biologist deals with a vast number of 

 properties of objects, and his inductions will not 

 be completed, I fear, for ages to come ; but when 

 they are, his science will be as deductive and as 

 exact as the Mathematics themselves. 



Such is the relation of Biology to those sciences 

 which deal with objects having fewer properties 

 than itself. But as the student, in reaching 

 Biology, looks back upon sciences of a less complex 

 and therefore more perfect nature ; so, on the 

 other hand, does he look forward to other more 

 complex and less perfect branches of knowledge. 

 Biology deals only with living beings as isolated 

 things treats only of the life of the individual : 

 but there is a higher division of science still, which 

 considers living beings as aggregates which deals 

 with the relation of living beings one to another 

 the science which observes men whose experiments 

 are made by nations one upon another, in battle- 

 fields whose general propositions are embodied in 

 history, morality, and religion whose deductions 

 lead to our happiness or our misery and whose 

 verifications so often come too late, and serve only 



" To point a moral, or adorn a tale" 



I mean the science of Society or Sociology. 



