THE

PHILOSOPHY

OF THE

INDUCTIVE SCIENCES,

FOUNDED UPON THEIR HISTORY.

BY THE

REV. WILLIAM WHEWELL, B.D.,

PELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, AND PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY

OF CAMBRIDGE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

OF LONDON.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

Λαμπάδια ἔχοντες διαδώσουσιν ἀλλήλοις.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

JOHN W. PARKER, WEST STRAND.
CAMBRIDGE: J. AND J. J. DEIGHTON.

M.DCCC.XL.

1097.

LONDON:

HARRISON AND CO., PRINTERS,

ST. MARTIN'S LANE.

CHAP. 1. Analogy of Biology with other Sciences

2. Successive Biological Hypotheses

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3. Attempts to Analyze the Idea of Life

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4. Attempts to form Ideas of Separate Vital Forces; and

first, of Assimilation and Secretion

39

5. Attempts to form Ideas of Separate Vital Forces, con-
tinued-Voluntary Motion

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6. Of the Idea of Final Causes

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BOOK X.-THE PHILOSOPHY OF PALETIOLOGY.

CHAP. 1. Of Palætiological Sciences in general

2. Of the Three Members of a Palætiological Science
3. Of the Doctrine of Catastrophes and the Doctrine of

Uniformity

4. Of the Relation of Tradition to Palætiology

PART II.-OF KNOWLEDGE.

Book XI.-OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF SCIENCE.

CHAP. 1. Of two principal Processes by which Science is

Constructed.

2. Of the Explication of Conceptions

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