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that he was a tolerably good observer and compiler, and surpassed 
ordinary men, perhaps, in ability to embody in words the results 
of his observations of various disconnected facts. There is, how- 
ever, no coordination of the facts observed, no valuation, and no 
subordination which would entitle his observations to be considered 
as a body of scientific facts or doctrine. The materials for science 
exist indeed, but in a very crude and imperfect condition. Com- 
mendation of his work as a model of scientific treatment betrays 
a phase of mind and‘appreciation which is not readily comprehen- 
sible, and has only found expression in vague eulogy without prof- 
fer of the proof or basis for the encomiums. It need only be 
added that in this opinion I essentially agree with some of the best 
qualified students of the works of the great Stagyrite. Of these, I 
need only mention especially the several treatises of Dr. Whew- 
ell,* the great master of Trinity college; Prof. Carl Sundevallt 
who has published a commentary on several of the classes treated 
of by Aristotle ; and Mr. George Henry Lewes}, who has devoted a 
special work to an examination of Aristotle’s various treatises. The 
verdicts of these gentlemen are pertinent and amply justified, I 
think, by the facts. The same can scarcely. be said of the cen- 
Sorious criticism of the Grammarian of the Deipnosophistz,§ or 
of the illustrious advocate of the inductive method||, but even their 
judgments, or at least that of the last, are the natural result of an- 
tagonism to the opposite extreme. 
At a future time, I may perhaps publish an analysis of the four 
capital propositions ascribed by Cuvier to Aristotle. 
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tilien und Inse . Ubersetzung aus dem Schwedise ori 1863, 
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