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PHANEROSCOPY:
OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CONCEPTS

Every undertaking begins, -- its purpose being determined
beforehand, -- with a review of the materials and other means at
ones command. Now science, in the sense in which I have
defined that word, -- namely, as the cooperative business or life-occupation, of
finding out and making sure of the truth by the speediest
methods known, -- is an undertaking. Whence, etc.

We have to consider that the great body of truth can
only be discovered and ascertained by specially devised
observations made by specially trained senses with specially
informed intelligences behind them. I follow Jeremy Bentham
in calling all that business by the name of Idioscopy. But in