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tute the department of science that Bentham called
Cenoscopy for the reason that it rests on the experience
of all men distributively taken, and must be acknowledged
by all.]

Let us inquire what this science or cluster of sciences
called Cenoscopy has to do. There are several ways of
investigating this question that lead to one result. I will
take the simplest of these. This consists in finding out
what such a study as Cenoscopy can discover, and
then setting down the whole of that and nothing more as
Cenoscopy's task.

But we here find ourselves talking of regarding
Cenoscopy as a single department of Science. We have