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with comparatively sparse or perhaps no intermediate forms.
This makes the Evolutionary family of Classificatory science.
In the second kind of questions, just as the third order of Hyloscepsy
tends to pass from studying individual things to noticing more and more
classes of like things, so now the second order tends to pass from studying
groups of things to noticing with more and more attention
the single characters and kinds of phenomena, complexes of which
distinguish those groups. They begin to ask why these phenomena should
be connected as they are found to be. Thus arises the Physiological
family of Classificatory science which tends to pass into the first, or
nomological order of Hyloscepsy.

The first order of either wing of Idioscopy (Bentham's term
for special science), is Nomological, that is to say, in its first