Excerpt from Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum: And a History of Classifications of the Sciences Very little requires to be referred to here. The Table of Contents should render unnecessary any Index of Names. The author's connection with the subject of his book has been a lengthened one. When a mere youth in Glasgow University he joined a number of young men, among whom were representative Cana dians, Englishmen, Welshmen, and others, in forming a Literary and Philosophical Society. As a member and vice-president his contributions to it were two essays, one on Cartesianism and the other on The Relations of the Sciences. The former cost him a study of two hundred old books in Latin and French, but it soon got lost and never returned to him. The latter he still possesses, and deems on the whole fairly accurate so far as it goes. His dealing with such a subject at all he attributes to the inspiration of the greatest of his teachers, the Professor William Thom son of the time, the Lord Kelvin of to-day and of all time. My study on the Relations of the Sciences 'i' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.