INTRODUCTION.

THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

INDUCTIVE SCIENCES.

PART I.

HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC IDEAS.

[We have just spoken of Theories and Facts, of Ideas and Facts, and of Inductive Sciences, which imply the opposition of Induction and Deduction. The explanation of these antitheses must be the starting point of our Philosophy.]

[Knowledge grows, and] through the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen’d with the process of the Suns.