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down from the past, and go forth to occupy the future, may be disclosed. While our experience, then, finds its first efforts directed to resemblances, these lead to profounder inquiries into causes, those links of force which lengthwise and laterally bind together the physical events of the world.

At length the purely objective character of knowledge passes somewhat away. The mind gives heed to the agent as well as to the instrument. Having acquired power, it learns to value itself, the possessor of that power. With more pure reflection and subjective attention, it inquires into its own faculties, and the laws of their control. Now come forward new intuitive ideas, liberty, right, beauty, disjoining philosophy from science, and setting the first over against the second as independent of it, and complementary to it. This change and jar of transition constitute the great danger attendant on the acquisition of this form of knowledge. The forces and notions of the one field are intruded into the other, and those who suppose themselves the most patient of inductive philosophers are really visionary theorists, adopting a disguised a priori method; since they bring to a new department methods and conceptions alien to it, and refuse, vacating the mind of prejudice, to examine and classify these fresh phenomena according to their inherent characteristics directly observed. There is thus more or less of vibration between the two fields. Now the philosophical, now the scientific conceptions rule the inquiring mind. The present, passionate, physical researches and methods of thought are sure to be followed by a recoil against forms of inquiry so one sided, so unscrupulous in their application. The deductive method was never more arbitrarily applied to science, with less correction from experience, than is the inductive method now to philosophy, bringing with it the forms and