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IN an essay on The Genesis of Science, originally published in 1854, I endeavoured to Show that the Sciences cannot be rationally arranged in serial order. Proof was given that neither the succession in which the Sciences are placed by M. Comte (to a criticism of whose scheme the essay was in part devoted), nor any other succession in Which the Sciences can be placed, represents either their logical dependence or their his torical dependence. To the question - how may their relations be rightly expressed? I did not then attempt any answer. This question I propose new to con sider.

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