"[A] science cannot be completely understood without a knowledge of how it arose; and... a dogmatic knowledge of any s…"

"In the main... our classification agrees with the history of science; the more general and simple sciences actually o…"

"By the dogmatic method, therefore, must every advanced science be attained, with so much of the historical combined w…"

"To pursue a science historically is quite a different thing from learning the history of its progress. This last pert…"

"Great confusion would arise from any attempt to adhere strictly to historical order in our exposition of the sciences…"

"Thus... in the system of the sciences, astronomy must come before physics, properly so called: and yet, several branc…"

"Thus the Dogmatic Method is for ever superseding the Historical, as we advance to a higher position in science."

"If every mind had to pass through all the stages that every predecessor in the study had gone through... however easy…"

"The only objection to the preference of the Dogmatic method is that it does not show how the science was attained; bu…"

"Our problem is, then, to find the one rational order, among a host of possible systems. ...This order is determined b…"