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Of the Classification of the Sciences.
Second Paper. Of the Practical Sciences.

The endeavor of this book will be to institute an inquiry into Logic which shall be scientific in a pretty rigorous sense. But no pretension to a particularly scientific character can be made on the part of this first chapter, whose purpose is simply to aid the reader to seize the import of the question that the book will strive to solve. It must fall short of the lowest scientific standard in sundry respects, and particularly as to definiteness of assertion and perhaps as to freedom from personal bias.

The multiplicity of proposed systems of classification of the sciences is, at first blush, amazing. A useful little volume by Mr. Ernest Cushing Richardson entitled 'Classification, theoretical and practical' (Chas. Scribners Sons:

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