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You must not think that I mean to say in any wooden sense that God's notion in creating the world was to have somebody to admire him. We cannot possibly put ourselves in God's shoes, even so far as to say in any definite, wooden sense that then God is. I only mean that the purpose of creation as it must appear to us in our highest approaches to an understanding of it, is to have make an answering mind, to It is God's movement toward self reproduction. And when I say that God is, I mean that the conception of a God is the highest flight toward an understanding of the original of the whole physico-psychical universe that we can make. It has the advantage over the agnostic's and other
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other views of offering to our apprehension an object to be loved. Now the heurospudist needs has an imperative need of finding in nature an object to love. His science cannot subsist without it. For science to him must be worship in order not to fall down before the feet of some idol of human workmanship. Remember that the human race is but an ephemeral thing. In a little while it will be altogether done with and cast aside. Even now it is merely dominant on one small planet of one insignificant star, while all that our sight embraces on a starry night is to the universe far less than a single cell of the brain is to the whole man.
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So the three great branches of science are Heurospude, Taxospude, and Prattospude. I have drawn up an a very elaborate classification of the Practical Sciences; but I shall not take up time with any account of that. I have not never yet attempted any classification of the Sciences of Review. But it is Heurospude, or Pure Science, which concerns us. Now pure science, as it now exists, happens to have has three grand divisions. There is Idioscopy, or the Special Sciences, such as Sociology, Astronomy, and the like, the great business of which is to discover and study hitherto unknown phenomena. Secondly, there is Philosophy, or Cenoscopy, which does
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not bother with new novel phenomena, but finds enough to do in endeavoring to understand those which are brought before every grown person every day of his life; and finally there is Mathematics, which never makes a single positive assertion of fact, but merely invents hypothetical states of things & says that if such and such were the case, not caring a snap of the fingers whether it be so or not, though usually it is not the case, then such and such would therein be true. [insert from next page] Now idioscopy, or special science, has two wings the physical and the psychical. The psychical depends on the physical. Yet on the whole, it is truer to regard them as
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My An opinion, which I ask nobody to share, that only enunciating it in order,— like Seneca whose "I told you so" on some future rummager among my MSS. is that to the future Heuromathyspude will divide in into Mathematics, Positive Science, and another branch hitherto undeveloped, the Natural History of Thought Positive Science consisting only of Cenoscopy and Idioscopy.