220 HABIT AND INTELLIGENCE. [ch. XLIII. 



g . J this group, and tlie science of language is another. It is a great 



language fault in Comte's series of the sciences, though only a fault of 

 omitted by ^^^g^^i ^jjj j^q^ pf principle, that he has left no possible place 



for the science of language. 



My obli^a- ^J ^^^^ °^ *^^® series of the cosmic sciences is taken from 



tions to the first volume of Humboldt's " Cosmos," though Humboldt 



"™ ° ■ has not given it in a tabular shape, nor has he formally separated 



the subject of his work into its natural divisions. Humboldt's 



arrangement of his subject appears to have been thought out 



without any suggestion whatever derived from Comte. The 



parallelism between the series of abstract sciences as arranged 



by Comte, and the series of cosmic sciences as arranged by 



Humboldt, has not, so far as I am aware, been pointed out 



before. 



