SOPHIOLOGY, OR THE SCIENCE OF ACTIVITIES 

 DESIGNED TO GIVE INSTRUCTION 



Sopliiology is the science of instruction. I sluill treat the 

 subject undei- two rubrics: First, the nature and origin of the 

 opinions which are inculcated by instruction, and, second, 

 the agencies of instruction 



Opinions, the Suhject-matter of Instruction 



Opinions are about particles severally or about them con- 

 jointly as they are organized into bodies. Particles thus con- 

 sidered are found to have essentials, relations, (piantities, prop- 

 erties, and qualities. There are no essentials without relations, 

 no relations without quantities, no qiumtities without ]»rop- 

 erties, and no properties without qualities, for the world is 

 concrete and there is nothing- abstract but in consideration. 

 Essentials, relations, quantities, properties, and qualities we 

 call categories. 



When the world is looked upon as concrete, and bodies are 

 discovered, it is found that every one is conq)osed of a group 

 of bodies; but to express the fact without confusion it is better 

 to say that a body is a group of particles, for when one laody 

 is considered as a constituent of another it promotes clear 

 statement to say tliat the compound body is com})Osed of 

 particles. Ultimate particles have never been reached by 

 analysis unless it be in the ether. 



Concepts grow as the products of thought. The stream of 

 thought is composed of instantaneous and successive judments, 

 some of which are duplicated and endlessly reduplicated. 

 While mentations arise from sense impressions, like sense 

 impressions ai-e oftentimes repeated and by association past 

 mentations are revived, so that there is a vast repetition of the 

 instantaneous judgments as they follow on through the stream 

 of mental life. 



