This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...is not completed, when men are only approaching the completion of matter science. Man first evolves logic and the mathematical sciences, then the inorganic physical sciences, then the organic physical sciences, and, last of all, he makes man his intellectual object, and endeavors to discover the laws of his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...is not completed, when men are only approaching the completion of matter science. Man first evolves logic and the mathematical sciences, then the inorganic physical sciences, then the organic physical sciences, and, last of all, he makes man his intellectual object, and endeavors to discover the laws of his functions. No matter how long or how short a time may be employed in the evolution, this is the necessary order in which the discovery of science must take place. And it would be quite as absurd for us now to affirm that politics cannot assume exactly the same form and certainty as the other sciences, as it would have been for men to affirm that chemistry could not reach its present perfection when their attention was devoted to mechanics, and the region of chemistry was occupied by groundless superstition. But while we affirm that political science cannot fail to be reduced to such an unobjectionable system as shall command the assent of the unprejudiced intellect, we have yet to look back on the operation of scientific truth, and to observe how the mere dogma becomes transformed into an external reality--how the mere proposition, which the intellect apprehends, becomes the means of vast achievement, and of vast benefit to the race of man. It has been well said that "error is the cause of human misery;" and as surely may it be said that knowledge is the antidote of error, and the means of man's redemption from misery. And though it is true that religion is the cause of individual regeneration, and the true and main cause of man's progression towards good, we must not, on that account, neglect the study of the mechanism of progression, or fail to note the route by which man must pass in his upward and onward progress. It is true that the...
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