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SCIENCE. 



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law. Rather iu each order of kuowledge there 

 is a unique concept which serves to form all the 

 other concepts of the same order. So he can- 

 not with Comte conceive that the highest sci- 

 ence consists in the co-ordination of scientific re- 

 sults. "This new specialty, the specialty of 

 generalization is philosophy." No, says Mons. 

 Goblot, the co-ordination of the results of science 

 is purely literary work. It is the literateur 

 and not the savant who has much to say of the 

 ' majestic unity of sicience.' To specialize 

 generalization is to specialize ignorance. 



Historically, philosophy was at first simply 

 science : the whole of science. Then it was sci- 

 ence minus a few special sciences which began 

 to be organized. And so this went on, phi- 

 losophy being continually impoverished by new 

 sciences which were formed from time to time. 

 Philosophy is thus ever the residue : the yet 

 unorganized part of human knowledge. 



The book nowhere gives evidence of any con- 

 siderable acquaintance with any branch of phys- 

 ical or natural science at first hand. It does 

 show much acute thinking and a wide range of 

 reading, especially in what the author would 

 call 'the moral sciences.' Of the 296 pages iu 

 the book 169 are occupied with cosmology, bi- 

 ology, and sociology. 



E. A. S. 



GENERAL. 



Announcement is made by Messrs. Archi- 

 bald Constable & Company of the preparation 

 of a 'Victoria History of the Counties of Eng- 

 land,' to be published in no fewer than one 

 hundred and sixty large octavo volumes. Ac- 

 cording to the prospectus it " will trace county 

 by county the story of England's growth from 

 its prehistoric condition, through the barbarous 

 age, the settlement of alien peoples, and the 

 gradual welding of many races into a nation 

 which is now the greatest on the globe. All 

 the phases of ecclesiastical history ; the changes 

 in land tenure ; the records of historic and 

 local families ; the history of the social life and 

 sports of the villages and towns ; the develop- 

 ment of art, science, manufactures and indus- 

 tries — all these factors which tell of the progress 

 of England from primitive beginnings to large 

 and successful empire will find a place iu the 



work, and their treatment be entrusted to those 

 who have made a special study of them." 



Mr. H. Arthur Doubleday, F.R.G.S., is the 

 general editor of the whole series, and the 

 plan of arrangement under sectional editors is 

 as follows : 



Natural History. Edited by Aubyn Trevor-Eattye, 

 M.A., F.L. S., etc. Geology, Paleontology, Flora, 

 Fauna, and Meteorology contributed by specialists. 



Prehistoric Remains. Edited by W. Boyd Dawkins. 

 M.A., F.ES., F.S.A. 



Koman Remains. Edited by F. Haverfield, M.A., 

 F.S.A. 



Anglo-S,axou Eemaius. Edited by C. Hercules 

 Read, F.S.A., and Reginald A. Smith, B.A. 



Ethnography. Edited by G. Laurence Gomme. 

 Dialect and Place Names, Folklore, Physical Types 

 contributed by various authorities. 



Domesday Book and other kindred Records. Edited 

 by J. Horace Round, M.A. 



Architecture. The Sections on the Cathedrals and 

 Monastic Remains. Edited by W. H. St. John Hope, 

 M.A. 



Ecclesiastical History and Political History. By 

 various authorities. 



Maritime History of Coast Counties. Edited by 

 J. K. Laughton, M.A. 



Topographical Accounts of Parishes and Manors. 

 By various authorities. 



History of the Feudal Baronage. Edited by J. 

 Horace Round, M.A., aud Oswald Barron. 



Family History and Heraldry. Edited by Oswald 

 Barron. 



Agriculture. Edited by Sir Ernest Clarke, M.A., 

 Sec. to the Royal Agricultural Society. 



Industries, Arts, and Manufactures, Social and 

 Economic History, and Persons Eminent in Art, Lit- 

 erature, Science. By various authorities. 



Ancient and Modern Sport. Edited by the Duke 

 of Beaufort. 



Bibliographies. 



It will be seen that the general scheme of the 

 work is at once comprehensive, scientific, and 

 complete. The history of each county will 

 open with its geologj', pass on to its paleontol- 

 ogy, and so through the ascending scale of the 

 floral aud animal kingdoms until prehistoric 

 man is reached. 



The Scientific Society of Colorado College 

 has just issued Vol. 8 of Colorado College Studies, 

 containing the following articles : 



' Equations of Motion of a Perfect Liquid and 



