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genus," (N. O. E., Book II, Ch. II). "These conceptious must 

 be as it were carefully unfolded so as to bring into clear view 

 the elements of truth with which they are marked by their ideal 

 origin," (Ibid). The Explication of Conceptions has been 

 effected in the history of Science by means of discussion, the 

 conflict of opposing views, and has sometimes been marked 

 by the establishment of a Definition. But when the Definition 

 involves the explicit predication of certain attributes of the 

 thing named, the increase of knowledge is of matter of fact and 

 cannot be called simply the Explication of a Conception, 

 (Ibid). 



"Induction is the process of a true colligation of facts by 

 means of an exact and appropriate conception; " " not the mere 

 sum of the facts, but the facts seen from a new point of view," 

 ( N. O. R. II, V. ) " The conceptions by which facts are bound 

 together are suggested by the sagacity of observers," (N. O. R. 

 II, Ch. IV), a sagacity which cannot be taught (Ibid). 



" When the theory of any subject is established the observa- 

 tions and experiments which are made in applying the science 

 to use and to instruction supply a perpetual verification of the 

 theory," (N. O. R, Book III, Ch. IX). 



Dr. Whewell's views on Induction are thus seen to result 

 directly from his theory of knowledge, his idea as to the manner 

 in which the objective and subjective elements. Sense and Idea, 

 join in perception ; and their full discussion belonged rather to 

 Philosophy than to Logic. The position taken is intermediate 

 between the a priori introspective theory of the investigation 

 of the Universe and that simple observation, cataloguing and 

 combination of external facts Avhich Bacon gives as the normal 

 method of scientific inquiry. Our progress in knowledge must 

 entirely depend, according to Dr. Whewell, upon the observa- 

 tion of facts and the verification of out generalizations by com- 

 parison with them; but it is the imagination of the investigator 

 that supplies the inductive guess to be verified. To his powers 

 of observation must be joined a natural sagacity capable of giv- 

 ing birth to a colligating conception which shall on verification 

 prove to be the appropriate one. 



