ly bodies
comprehended by _Cosmogeny_. These divide into
elements--_Stoechiogeny_. The earth element divides into
minerals--_Mineralogy_. These unite into one collective
body--_Geogeny_. The whole in singulars is the living, or
_Organic_, which again divides into plants and animals.
_Biology_, therefore, divides into _Organogeny_, _Phytosophy_,
_Zoosophy_.")

FIRST KINGDOM.--MINERALS. _Mineralogy_, _Geology_.

Part III. BIOLOGY.--_Organosophy_, _Phytogeny_, _Phyto-physiology_,
_Phytology_, _Zoogeny_, _Physiology_, _Zoology_,
_Psychology_.

A glance over this confused scheme shows that it is an attempt to
classify knowledge, not after the order in which it has been, or may be,
built up in the human consciousness; but after an assumed order of
creation. It is a pseudo-scientific cosmogony, akin to those which men
have enunciated from the earliest times downwards; and only a little
more respectable. As such it will not be thought worthy of much
consideration by those who, like ourselves, hold that experience is the
sole origin of knowledge. Otherwise, it might have been needful to dwell
on the incongruities of the arrangements--to ask how motion can be
treated of before space? how there can be rotation without matter to
rotate? how polarity can be dealt with without involving points and
lines? But it will serve our present purpose just to point out a few of
the extreme absurdities resulting from the doctrine which Oken seems to
hold in common with Hegel, that "to philosophise on Nature is to
re-think the great thought of Creation." Here is a sample:--

"Mathematics is the universal science; so also is Physio-philosophy,
although it is only a part, or rather but a condition of the universe;
both are one, or mutually congruent.

"Mathematics is, however, a science of mere forms without substance.
Physio-philosophy is, therefore, _mathematics endowed with substance_."

From the English point of view it is sufficiently amusing to find such a
dogma not only gravely stated, but stated as an unquestionable truth.
Here we see the experiences of quantitative relations which men have
gathered from surrounding bodies and generalised (experiences which had
been scarcely at all generalised at the beginning of the historic
period)--we find these generalised experiences, these intellectual
abstractions, elevated into concrete