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of mind , the exercise of moral qualities , and the extension of civilization , —he has blended Philosophy with Science , and connected the particular results of political economy with that general system of truth , which the connected study of the universe unfolds . It has been remarked by foreign writers , * that the term Philosophy has been used in England with too exclusive a reference to the physical and mathematical Sciences . We do indeed acknowledge a distinct branch of it in moral philosophy ; but even this distribution into moral and natural philosophy is not sufficiently comprehensive .
There is a Philosophy of every branch of thought and inquiry , that exhibits phenomena , capable of being referred to the general order of Providence , or of being accounted for by their dependence on the ultimate facts of the human mind . In this sense , there is a Philosophy of poetry , of art , of history , and of human sentiment and character . Vague as may have been the use , and
uncertain the origin of the term Philosophy , some idea of this kind , from the time of Socrates downwards ., seems usually to have been associated with it . The different schools of philosophers had each their peculiar theory of the system of the world and of the nature of man , to the support and illustration of which their knowledge of history and all the science which they then possessed , was made to contribute .
Philosophy , therefore , may be considered as the general conclusion which men draw from the whole range of their inquiries , relative to the order and tendency , moral and physical , of the state of things in which they live : in its most extended sense , a higher kind of metaphysics , tracing the relations which subsist between the several results of the most diversified operations of the
human mind , and the most various investigations of human science , and aiming to combine them harmoniously together , as a portion of that vast system of truth , of which the universe is the exhaustless receptacle . ^ Ckofxovao Q * * See Bouterwek ' s observations on the foundation of the Royal Society in his Geschichte der Poesie und Beredsamkeit , 8 th vol . p . 26 .
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Poetry ; Science , and Philosophy ^ 331
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1834, page 331, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2633/page/19/
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