From the introductory chapter: The Relation of Ethics to Other Studies. ETHICS is the science of morality. By science is here meant the systematic treatment of any object of study. Ethics is called a science, because it presents the principles of morality in a systematic form, and seeks to find the basis upon which they rest. A comparison with these departments of study may make more clear the nature of the subjects of which Ethics treats. There are three kinds of science. There are in the first place the sciences ...
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From the introductory chapter: The Relation of Ethics to Other Studies. ETHICS is the science of morality. By science is here meant the systematic treatment of any object of study. Ethics is called a science, because it presents the principles of morality in a systematic form, and seeks to find the basis upon which they rest. A comparison with these departments of study may make more clear the nature of the subjects of which Ethics treats. There are three kinds of science. There are in the first place the sciences that treat of facts , of their relations to one another, and of the laws that govern them. It is to these that the name science is more commonly given. These sciences have to do with facts past and future as well as present. Geology pictures to us the state of the earth long ages ago, and astronomy that of the heavens. The astronomer can also foretell the position of the planets at any moment in the future, if he cares to make the calculation; and the geologist can foretell the future of the world, though with less exactness as to time. To these sciences one fact is as important as another if it reveals the working of a general law. The insect, the dust that fills the air, in a word, anything may be an object of study. You would hardly believe, for instance, how much the frog has contributed to the knowledge of the world. The web of the frog's foot is so thin and transparent that under the microscope the blood can be seen moving. Looked at in this way the blood is perceived to be not a mere fluid. You can see what look like circular discs borne along, something like the cakes of ice that are carried by a stream in a freshet. In this way the student of anatomy can learn in a moment more about the circulation of the blood than could be taught in any other way in a much longer time. Moreover, what he sees he knows as he does not know what is merely told him, just as, though you may have learned in books about the hippopotamus, for instance, the sight of one first gives you real knowledge about it....
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