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sciences, still no two would be alike, because each classification has its peculiar motive, purpose, and governing idea, which is almost invariably to make a good showing for some theory of philosophy.

It is now time to explain the classification of this chapter, what it aims to be, by what means that aim has been pursued, and how nearly it seems to have been attained. Two questions have to be answered at the outset: What is here meant by science? And what is meant by a science, one of the unit species out of which the system is built up? The spirit of this book is always to look upon those aspects of things which exhibit whatever of living and active there is in them.

The prevalent definition of science, the definition of Coleridge, which influenced all Europe through the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, that sciences is a sys-