ee, as contracted with the _few_. We can conceive no reason
that can be adduced in justification of the word _caloric_, as
invented to distinguish the external cause of the sensation heat,
which would not equally authorise the introduction of a technical
term in this instance.

12 For abstractions are the conditions and only subject of all abstract
sciences. Thus the theorist (vide Dalton's Theory), who reduces the
chemical process to the positions of atoms, would doubtless thereby
render chemistry calculable, but that he commences by destroying the
chemical process itself, and substitutes for it a _mote dance_ of
abstractions; for even the powers which he appears to leave real,
those of attraction and repulsion, he immediately unrealizes by
representing them as diverse and separable properties. We can
abstract the quantities and the quantitative motion from masses,
passing over or leaving for other sciences the question of what
constitutes the masses, and thus apply not to the masses themselves,
but to the abstractions therefrom,--the laws of geometry and
universal arithmetic. And where the quantities are the infallible
signs of real powers, and our chief concern with the masses is as
SIGNS, sciences may be founded thereon of the highest use and
dignity. Such, for instance, is the sublime science of astronomy,
having for its objects the vast masses which "God placed in the
firmament of the heaven to be for _signs_ and for seasons, for days
and years." For the whole doctrine of physics may be reduced to
three great divisions: First, _quantitative motion_, which is
proportioned to the quantity of matter exclusively. This is the
science of weight or statics. Secondly, _relative motion_, as
communicated to bodies externally by impact. This is the science of
mechanics. Thirdly, _qualitative motion_, or that which is accordant
to properties of matter. And this is chemistry. Now it is evident
that the first two sciences presuppose that which forms the
exclusive object of the third, namely, quality; for all quantity in
nature is either itself derived, or at least derives its powers from
some _quality_, as that of weight, specific cohesion, hardness, &c.;
and therefore the attempt to reduce to the distances or impacts of
atom