...ces, and tended in the greatest degree to prevent a just conception of the objects of the science, or of the test to be applied to the solution of the... ...ttled Questions of Political Economy rich themselves and the country. This object, under the vary- ing names of an extensive demand, a brisk circulati... ...it would seem incumbent on them to show, that the expression to which they object is not applicable to a state of things in which all or most commodit... ... by which they are habitually designated. Further, so long as the pedantic objection to the introduction of new technical terms continues, accurate th... ...t and com- plained of, the only answer which we have ever seen made to the objection is, that the line of demarcation must be drawn somewhere, and tha... ..., when he observed that the first principles of all sciences belong to the philosophy of the human mind. The observation is just; and the first princi... ...branches of knowledge. If we open any book, even of mathematics or natural philosophy, it is impossible not to be struck with the mistiness of what we... ... of being founded upon it. The science of mechanics, a branch of natu- ral philosophy, lays down the laws of motion, and the prop- erties of what are ... ...dge of the properties of the subject-matter: without this, it would not be philosophy, but empiricism; [Greek: empeiria,] not [Greek: technae,] in Pla...