Excerpt from The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Vol. 30: For the Year 1858<br><br>On the contrary, that distinguishing feature undoubtedly is, its attempted application of the inductive method to the pheno mena of human intelligence, as displayed in history, with the view of discovering a law by means of which the natural pro cess of science shall be ascertained and regulated. In other words, it aspires to be a philosophy of science based upon the history of science. It would apply the accumulated experience of the race to the great problem of determining what are the true limits, the method, and the goal of human knowledge. With this design, it enters upon a survey of the course of man's Speculative or intellectual convictions throughout all time, the result of which is the announcement of a grand law of scientific development, which all the most advanced sciences are declared to have observed in their progress toward exact, real know ledge, and which all the remainder must therefore, sooner or later, illustrate.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.