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that the wonders and subtleties of possible existence surpass all that our mental powers allow us clearly to perceive. The study of abstract logical and mathematical forms has seemed to convince me that even space itself is no requisite condition of conceivable existence. Everything, we are told by materialists, must be here or there, nearer or further, before or after. I deny thisand point to logical relations as my proof.

There formerly seemed to me to be something highly mysterious in the denominators of the binomial expansion (vol. i. p. 216) which are reproduced in that strange natural constant e, or

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and in many results of mathematical analysis. I now perceive, as already partially explained (vol. i. pp. 40-42, 180, 181, 443, 444), that they arise out of the fact that the relations of space do not apply to the logical conditions which govern the numbers of combinations as contrasted to those of permutations. So far am I from accepting Kant's doctrine that space is a necessary form of thought, that I regard it as an accident, and an impediment to pure logical reasoning. Material existences must exist in space no doubt, but intellectual existences may be neither in space nor out of space; they may have no relation to space at all, just as space itself has no relation to time. For all that I can see, then, there may be intellectual existences to which both time and space are nullities.

Now among the most unquestionable rules of Scientific Method is that first law that whatever phenomenon is, is. We must ignore no existence whatever; we may variously interpret or explain its meaning and origin, but if a phenomenon does exist it demands some kind of explanation. If then there is to be a competition for scientific recog

nition, the world without us must yield to the undoubted existence of the spirit within. Our own hopes and wishes and determinations are the most undoubted phenomena within the sphere of consciousness. If men do act, feel, and live as if they were not merely the brief products of a casual conjunction of atoms, but the instruments of a farreaching purpose, are we to record all other phenomena and pass over these? We investigate the instincts of the ant and the bee and the beaver, and discover that they are led by an inscrutable agency to work towards a distant purpose. Let us be faithful to our scientific method, and investigate also those instincts of the human mind, by which man is led to work as if the approval of a Higher Being were the aim of life.

THE END.

INDEX.

ABACUS, the logical, i. 119; Briggs',
206.
Abecedarium, the logical, i. 109, 214,
234; ii. 367, 380, 387.
Aberration of light, ii. 169, 185.
Abscissio infiniti, i. 94 ; ii. 400.
Abstract terms, i. 33; numbers, 357.
Abstraction, logical, i. 30; ii. 389;
numerical, i. 177, 215; of indifferent
circumstances, 112.

Academie del Cimento, ii. 36, 42, 46.
Accident, logical, ii. 378.
Accidental discovery, ii. 162.
Achromatic lenses, ii. 42.
Actinometer, i. 389.
Agassiz, ii. 416.

Airy, Sir George Biddel, ii. 171, 174,
190, 196; perpetual motion, i. 257;
accidental discovery, 267; density of
earth, 340; ii. 209; pendulum, i.
355; errors of observation, 459; tide
wave, ii. III; extrapolation, 120.
Alchemists, ii. 37, 133.
Algebra, i. 141, 174, 185.
Algebraic geometry, ii, 290.
Allotropic condition, ii, 331, 340, 341.
Alloys, number of, i. 218; properties of,
ii. 161.

Alphabet, permutations of, i. 196, 203.
Alphabetic indexes, ii. 401.
Alternative relation, i. 8o.
Ampère, electricity, ii. 184; classifica-
tion, 351.
Anagrams, i. 146.

Analogy, ii. 244, 283; in sign of equality,

i. 18; use of, ii. 140; use in discovery,
286; in mathematics, 288; in theory
of undulations, 293; in astronomy,
297; failures in, 302.
Analysis, logical, i. 140.
Andrews, Dr., ii. 266, 334.

Antecedent defined, i. 258.
Anticipation of nature, ii. 137.

Apparent equality, i, 319; sequence of
events, ii. 13.

Approximation, principles of, ii. 92; to
exact laws, 79.

Aqueous vapour, ii. 126.
Aquinas, ii. 384; on logical division, i.

82.

Arago, photometer, i. 335; rotating disc,
ii. 170, 240.

Archimedes, de arena numero, i. 222;
centre of gravity, 422.

Aristotle, dictum, i. 26; overlooked
simple identities, 46, 48; imperfect
syllogistic conclusion, 71; on time,
359.

Arithmetic, reasoning in, i. 188; of ap-
proximate quantities, ii. 103.
Arithmetical triangle, i. 108, 208, 230.
Asteroids, discovery of, ii. 17, 444.
Astronomy, i. 285; ii. 201.

Atmospheric tides, ii. 192.

Atoms, ii. 10; size of, i. 222; weights
of, 205.

Augustin, on time, i. 359.
Aurora, i. 322.

Average, i. 417; divergence from, 213;
derivation of word, 421.
Axes of crystals, ii. 359.
Axioms of algebra, i. 185.

B.

Babbage, Charles, ii. 455; calculating
machine, i. 123, 437; lighthouse sig-
nals, 220; change of law, 265; ii.
437; natural constants, i. 381; hu-
man remains, ii. 17; general prin-
ciples, 309.

Bacon, Francis, biliteral cipher, i. 220;
on causes, 254; Copernican system,
287; instances, 313; the senses, 322;
fallacies, ii. 5; method of, ii. 134,
220; use of hypothesis, 137; experi-
mentum crucis, 149; latens proces-
sus, 273.

Bacon, Roger, on rainbow, ii. 159, 247.
Baily, Francis, i. 316; ii. 171; pen-
dulum experiments, i. 463; experi-
ments on density of earth, i. 430,
462; ii. 41, 208.

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E energy, ii. 83, 431.
beers, i. 380; mathemati-
hysical, 383; astronomical,
strial, 385; organic, 385;

sense of, ii. 117; detection
aw of, 268, 419; failure of,

quantity, ii. 108.

ive propositions, i. 100, 101.
1, i. 55; contrapositive, 97.
theory, i. 283; ii. 153, 281,

2.

19.

lar theory, ii. 150, 173, 304.
›n, method of, i. 406.
on, ii. 350, 354.

Roger, means, i. 416; method
ast squares, 437; weighted ob-
tions, 450.

mechanical, ii. 318.

on, i. 170; ii. 416.

allography, i. 153; ii. 162, 184,

1, 319, 359, 398, 450.

als, pseudomorphic, ii. 324.

es, nature of, ii. 99; discovery of,

15.

ier, i. 355; ii. 31.

nite, ii. 261.

cloid, ii. 291.

D.

Alembert, probability, i. 244, 245;
gravity, ii. 81.

alton, laws of, ii. 82, 91, 274, 329.
Darwin, Charles, theory, ii. 8, 48, 165,
218, 405, 421; orchids, 19, 409;
classification, 410; reproduction, 421.
Davy, Sir H., instruments, i. 313; heat
of friction, i. 397; ii. 23; electro-
lysis, 29, 38.

Decandolle's system, ii. 387.
Deduction, i. 13, 59; probable, 239.
Definition, i. 64; ii. 397.
De la Rue, ii. 67, 109.

De Morgan, sign of equality, i. 18;
Aristotle's logic, 22; relatives, 27;
limited universe, 52; complex pro-
blems, 90; contrapositive conversion,
97; Euclid's indirect proof, 98;
logical problems, 116; error of sys-
tem, 135; numerically definite syllo-
gism, 190; probability, 226; experi-
ments on probability, 237; probable
argument, 239; trisection of angle,
268; finite experience, 300; arcual
unit, 358; personal error, 403; means,
419; average, 421 weighted obser-
vations, 450; works on probability,
459; apparent sequence, ii. 13; small
errors, 101; subequality, 102; gene-
ralisation, 249; catalogues, 403.

Density, unity of, i. 371; of earth, ii.

207; negative, 304.

Depth of oceans, i. 347.

Descartes, ii. 135, 290.
Development, logical, i. 104.
Diagnosis, ii. 394.

Diamond, ii. 159, 261.
Diatomaceæ, ii. 9, 410.

Difference, law of, i. 6, 87, 95; sign of,
20, 54; of numbers, 210: calculus of,
ii. 122; logical, 377.

Differential calculus, ii. 99; thermo-
meter, i. 400.

Diffraction of light, ii. 27.
Discontinuity, ii. 274.

Discoveries, accidental, ii. 162; pre-
dicted, 171.

Disjunctive terms, i. 79; conjunction,
80; proposition, 89, 127; syllogism,
92.

Donkin, i. 226, 227, 243, 248.
Double refraction, ii. 174, 231, 361.
Dove's law, ii. 168.

Draper's law, ii. 257.
Duality, law of, i. 87, 95.
Duration, i. 360.

E.

Eclipses, i. 343; ii. 322.
Electric acid, ii. 38.

Electricity, ii. 163, 187, 237, 264; unit
of, i. 379; theory of, ii. 154.
Electrolysis, ii. 37, 163.

Electro-magnetism, ii. 164.
Electrometer, i. 330.

Elements, classification of, ii. 347, 349,
364, 374.

Ellicott, on Clocks, ii. 70.
Ellipsis, logical, i. 69.
Elliptic variation, ii. 94.
Ellis, A. J., i. 27, 190, 194.
Ellis, W., effect of full moon,
Emanation, law of, ii. 82.
Emotions, ii. 424.

ii. 14.

Empirical knowledge, ii. 132, 157, 158;
measurements, 190.

Encke, Comet, i. 363; ii. 212; law of

error, i. 445; mean, 449; resisting
medium, ii. 155.

Energy, unit of, i. 376; conservation
of, ii. 83, 431.

Equality, i. 56, 183; sign of, 18;
meanings of, ii. 102.
Equations, i. 142, 180; ii. 51.
Equilibrium, unstable, i. 320; ii. 319.
Equivalence, logical, i. 132, 134; re-
markable case of, 162; ii. 323.
Eratosthenes, sieve, i. 96, 141, 160; on
latitude, 315, 342.

Error, function, i. 382; avoidance of,
393; personal, 402; rules for elimi-
nating, 409; law of, 434; formula of,

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