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not so much spoken in their character of scientific observers
The definitions of Agassiz will, at least, have the do us the service
as it is the expression of a traditionally absorbed
of directing our attention to the supreme importance of bearing in
fourteenth century metaphysics, quite in conflict with
mind the final cause of objects in [???] finding out their own
modern science. The naturalists thus leave us with very
natural classifications.

Little true light upon this important question.

So much in regard to classification. Now if we
are to classify the sciences, it is highly desirable that we
should begin by with a definite notion of what we
mean by a science; and in view of what has been said
of natural classification, it is plainly important that
our notion of science should be a notion of science as
it lives and not a mere abstract definition. Let us
remember that science is a pursuit of living men, and
that its most marked characteristic is that, when it is
genuine, it is in an perpetual incessant state of metabolism and
growth. If we resort to a dictionary, we shall be told
that it is systematized knowledge. Most of the classifications
of the sciences have been classifications