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-rience rests on a basis of its own, wbiob is quite inde- 
pendent of speculative philosophy. The sciences, as such, ar 
founded on a body of facts, which are facts relatively to us, 
“ . ~W may kte of 
^ oinr. T>i pit* function is the analysis ol tJiese iacts, auu 
metaphysic which examines the substratum of the facts 
themselves. manner t | ie science which, m conformity 
with usao-e I must designate that of moral phi osophy, though 
I sLu dprefe“ to call it the science of the active principles m 
1 siionia pieiei w idch exist in dependently ot 
th'fTmetaTihysic which underlies the foundation of these facts. 
There arefour sources from whence they are derived-our se £ 
principles of human obligation, and the means Dy 
° a 7 ^Ifthis be ^correct 'view of its functions, it is obvious 
thlt of all human sciences, it has the most 
Ud eMion i J^XnS 
with ma^ i ractivities)lt 1 n^st a form a ^ e °^ t ™^ e .^ U ^g°^g C ^ed 
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retelation ts^ of a most Important character. If the conclusions 
of such a philosophy, founded on pure groun s . ’ the 
confirmatory of ^e^iscoven^ * attest ’ tion 
™ t°o f ff SSL 1 itself f-ms ofa ^tth.° mmaIldlDS 
^Xt^af objection ^Waised against me, as has 
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