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endeavor not only to describe but also to
account for the characters of individual
objects. They are astronomy and
geognosy on the physical side, history,
archeology etc on the psychical
side.

We now come to what particularly concerns
us, Cenoscopy, or Philosophy. You will observe
that I make this a branch of science upon which
all special science including psychology
depends, while the empirical philosophers
generally, Comte, followed by his imitators (for
(and all their violent opposition to him only marks their dependence more strongly)
Spencer and Fiske, as well as Wundt and
many others make philosophy to depend upon
the special sciences. I do not however so totally