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Excerpt from History of Scientific Ideas, Vol. 1 of 2 The Sciences to which the name is most commonly and unhesitatingly given, are those which are con cerned about the material world whether they deal with the celestial bodies, as the sun and stars, or the earth and its products, or the elements; whether they consider the differences which prevail among such oh jects, or their origin, or their mutual operation. And in all these Sciences it is familiarly understood and assumed, that their doctrines are obtained by a common process of collecting general truths from particular observed facts, which process is termed Induction. It is further assumed that both in these and in other pro vinces of knowledge, so long as this process is duly and legitimately performed, the results will be real substantial truth. And although this process, with the conditions under which it is legitimate, and the gene ral laws of the formation of Sciences, will hereafter be subjects of discussion in this work, I Shall at present so far adopt the assumption of which I speak, as to give to the Sciences from which our lessons are to be collected the name of Inductive Sciences. And thus it is that I am led to designate my work as the phi losophy OF the inductive sciences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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