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adopted a definition for science in general; but what
are we to understand by A science, and what shall be the
boundaries of any single science? Science, in our
view, is a life-occupation, a business. A question analogous
to that just formulated might be asked of business in general.
Namely, knowing what business is collectively can we
say what A single business consists in? It would not quite
suffice to say that a business is so much of the grand
total of Business ^* [^* Footnote Remember, I always use this word in
the sense of [any?] life-occupation, without reference to
any extrinsic gain.) as one man or company conducts
or might conducts. For an old friend of mine was a
world-renowned poetical translator of the La Divina Commedia.